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From: robinson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeWS
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 22:20:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 22:20:09 1987
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In article <309@l5comp.UUCP> scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner) writes:
>In article <1057@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@pnet02.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>$500 for a Mircocruft windows development kit, now thats draconian.
>Naw, draconian is $3500 for a OS/2 developers kit for the PS/2. You can then
>debug it for them, report the bugs, and then pay some more money to get to
>debug it again in the next round!

As the originator of the "draconian" charge, I will repeat publicly what
I have sent privately in response to numerous injured golfish.

NeWS binaries for the Sun are, as far as I can tell, an unprecedented 
bargain (commercially speaking).  Draconian is, in my mind, selling a 
Xylogics controller for almost twice the quantity one price from
Xylogics, with the warantee slashed to 90 days from Xylogics' one year.
Also, in my mind, it is draconian to charge $25,000 for an individual,
non-profit source license, for the express purpose of making a port for
personal use.  A whole University can get a site license for $1000, but
one person has to pay $25,000.  Given that NeWS was originally intended
to be public domain, it seems particularly extreme.


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