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From: phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (Praveen Kumar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Cost of NeWS
Message-ID: <846@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 14:18:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 14:18:40 1987
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Reply-To: phaedrus@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Praveen Kumar)
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I have heard Bill Joy say that they (Sun) want NeWS to be a windowing
standard.  They want lots of people to develop software for it.  I have
also heard that when people call up Sun and ask how much will it cost to
get the source code, they have been told that it will be on the order of
$25,000.  This seems to be to be inconsistent with the stated goal. 
After all, one of the peachy keen things to do, is to port NeWS to other
machines. 

Does anyone know any *FACTS* about pricing for NeWS source code?  Maybe
someone at Sun can answer?

thanks,
pk

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