Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:59:32 -0700 From: wes@intele.net To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? Message-ID: <199603200359.UAA00775@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <199603192114.NAA01635@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199603192114.NAA01635@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Jeffrey Hsu writes: > > > 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? SCO didn't buy "all of Unix." In fact, all they bought was the source to UnixWare, and the rights to sell "derived works." This is essentially what Sun bought as well -- SVR4 source and the right to sell derived works under their own name with no royalties. Everything else, including the "intagible" but nevertheless highly valuable rights to the trademark "UNIX" went to X/Open.
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