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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:14:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
To:        terry@lambert.org
Cc:        chat
Subject:   Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way?
Message-ID:  <199603192114.NAA01635@freefall.freebsd.org>

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> > 	Only SVR4 (original AT&T) version need licenses. That is why
> > 	Sun paid $85M to Novell.
> 
> Actually, Sun did it as a "royalty buyout".  If it were a fixed cost,
> it would be "one time overhead", and the street price of Solaris would
> have dropped immediately.  It didn't.

Seems like a very bad deal now, doesn't it, now that SCO has bought
all of Unix for 80M?



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