Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inria!gouldfr!vogon!philip From: philip@vogon.cetia.fr (Philip Peake) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO stopping enhancements for Xenix? Message-ID: <1281@vogon.cetia.fr> Date: 6 Mar 90 12:38:49 GMT References: <1314@polari.UUCP> <5118@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <568@sixhub.UUCP> <1731@lakesys.lakesys.com> Reply-To: philip@vogon.cetia.fr (Philip Peake) Organization: CETIA, France Lines: 22 In article <1731@lakesys.lakesys.com> davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske) writes: >I have yet to hear (see) anyone talk about the newest kid on the block....Intel. >I think it is also interesting to note that while SCO's prices are going up, >AT&T's licensing fees are going down. True, but you havn't said why ... XENIX was (is) sold under the V7 licence conditions, since it is utlimately based upon V7, with evolution (more or less) tracking that of 'official' AT&T versions. Now, SCO UNIX is based upon SVR3 and has to be sold under the SVR3 licence conditions, and, guess what, those licence conditions (and prices) have changed somewhat since V7 days ! Using the magic word UNIX is the description of the article also requires SVR3 licencing (plus a few other things such as SVVS compliance ...). This is not excusing SCO for increasing prices, just giving a good reason why its happening. Philip