Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!dmcanzi
From: dmcanzi@watserv1.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Risc System/6000
Keywords: all in all, reasonable cost.
Message-ID: <1150@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 04:49:16 GMT
References: <1990Feb19.213357.7340@lavaca.uh.edu> <4115@ibmpa.UUCP> <10307@hoptoad.uucp> <1565@awdprime.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmcanzi@watserv1.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Organization: Nattering Nabobs of Negativity.
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In article <1565@awdprime.UUCP> @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron writes:
>|>"X server software" is $500, plus $50 for each terminal...  
>
>Every major manufacturer charges for their own X-Window product to
>cover porting (one heck of an optimization job too) and distribution
>costs (don't forget full manual set).  The $50/terminal results from
>the brain-dead Motif licensing fees (call OSF up, they'll say they
>charge $50/term no matter the platform too), so no profit there.

Given the ability, inherent in the way X windows works, to use window
managers over the network, how can any sane procedure be devised to
count and charge for the number of terminals the window manager can
(and will) be used on?

-- 
David Canzi