Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:05:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hsu@freefall.freebsd.org (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? Message-ID: <199603192305.QAA25103@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603192114.NAA01635@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Mar 19, 96 01:14:15 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > 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? Kind of an old message. 8-). Yeah, well, Sun switched from SunOS to Solaris, too... there's no accounting for taste. It was a mistake to let the bean-counters classify the purchase, since it damaged the end-user pricing of Solaris itself, since they were trying to amortize a fixed cost as a capital invetment. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199603192305.QAA25103>