Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!sjl
From: sjl@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 030 box (giggle)
Message-ID: <4768@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Apr 88 13:01:39 GMT
References: <679UD140469@NDSUVM1> <22782@bbn.COM> <943@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <945@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <1032@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: sjl@ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <1032@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes:
>In article <945@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer) writes:
>> 
>> I hope Atari releases [UNIX] sources, because its the only way anything will
>> ever get fixed.
>
>Before this goes much further, please remember that with UNIX any person or
>entity wishing access to source code derived from the original AT&T source
>distribution must first execute a Source Code License agreement with AT&T.
>This runs into the tens of thousands of dollars, and is thus unlikely in
>the home market (but more than probable for major OEMs/private labels).

.... and universities for whom the licenses start at $400 (any university
out there NOT got a source license?).

So will Atari release the sources to license holders? UKnet redistribute a
fixed version of UUCP which requires a source license and there are a lot
of license holders out there. They are not all big companies by any means.

	sean