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Subject: Re: AT&T and the 3B*2
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Actually you are right.  The price doesn't overly concerne me but I expect
my friendly neighborhood NON-DEC OEM (like Pyramid or Gould) to buy it and
then sell and support a binary implementation for their machines.  Just like
the rest of the operating system, eh.  You are right, the BLIT hostend is
now available, but never the less it was annoying to hear not one hour after
the keynote address indicating that ATT wanted to free the community of
vender dependence that it said that there would be no source licensing.
It was only after a rally of the OEM's that they relented.  It was still
only 6 months after the person in charge of government licensing insisted
that there would be no binary-only software packages brought into the UNIX
domain.

-Ron