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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Korn shell available?
Keywords: Korn shells ksh
Message-ID: <12019@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 30 Aug 88 16:54:24 GMT
References: <5302@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <2934@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <23380@labrea.Stanford.EDU> <256@belltec.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <256@belltec.UUCP> dar@belltec.UUCP (Dimitri Rotow) writes:

| (sigh!) I wish ! AT&T sells KSH sources through the "Toolchest" where a
| single fixed price gets you source code plus unlimited rights to binary
| redistribution royalty free.  The current charge for KSH is $20,000, rather
| steep when you consider that far more complex packages go for much less.

	Perhaps you're looking at the wrong charge here? The cost of a
vendor license is, as you say, $20k, with the right to resell the
binary at any price (including free with your product). For about $4k
you can get a site license for all computers at one location. I would
expect that anyplace with a few systems would find that a pretty small
cost per machine.

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me