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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0
Message-ID: <8748@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 88 20:09:38 GMT
References: <2691@ihwpt.ATT.COM> <316@tarkus.UUCP> <1672@edison.GE.COM> <6861@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <Oct.12.12.18.27.1988.10050@athos.rutgers.edu> <211@tscs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <211@tscs.UUCP> gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard) writes:
>>You should be able to get ksh from the ATT Toolchest.  There is a
>>charge, but not a lot.
>Last time I looked on the toolchest it was ONLY $3,000.00.  About
>2,800 reasons why I could not buy it.  To me, $3k is A LOT of money.
>And to think, I have customers who complain about a price of $100.00 
>for a piece of software.  I'd hate to be trying to sell them a $65K+ UNIX
>source license. :-)

The $3K is for unlimited site-wide use of the source code.
Binary sublicensing is available, so that a binary copy could be
distributed for a fee along the lines of what you seem to consider
reasonable.  After all, the "$100" software you talk about is
unlikely to come in source form.