Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 10:11:53 -0500 From: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu> To: Javier Henderson <javier@KJSL.COM> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19991104101153.0136de00@mail.vt.edu>
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Compaq cannot give Tru64 away because Compaq is required to pay royalties to companies such as AT&T for legacy code. Wether Tru64 actually has any of this code in it is another matter. It's probably cheaper for Compaq to pay the royalties instead of going to court to prove it doesn't use AT&T's code. Most of the money in the $99 price goes to pay royalties for such code. It would be a monetary loss for Compaq to give Tru64 away because for every copy they give away they would have to pay the royalties out of their own pocket. Nick At 07:05 AM 11/4/99 -0800, Javier Henderson wrote: >Jim King writes: > > See http://www.unix.digital.com/noncommercial-unix/. It looks like Compaq > > is selling Tru64 5.0 for $99 to "non-commercial technology > > enthusiasts". Sounds interesting... > > Heck, they're giving VMS away for free to hobbysits, why >not do the same with Unix? > >-jav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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