Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!root%bostonu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA From: BostonU SysMgrNewsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AT&T and Unix Message-ID: <7334@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 20:52:10 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7334 Posted: Mon Jan 14 20:52:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 01:45:35 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 20 Universities get the sources cheap because they are willing to enter into agreements to allow AT&T to retain ownership of software developed on such systems (in general.) Universities can enter into such contracts. If your business was willing to sign such a thing AT&T might let you have it also but I doubt your business is interested as it wants to make money (like AT&T.) If a university decides otherwise then it, too, has to purchase a commercial agreement...no difference as far as I understand. As for personal computing (a different subject) I agree, there is a real problem here. Especially because so many personal computerists have dreams of becoming businesses so they are not that special a case. For this reason (confusion?) and others I am completely supportive of RMS's GNU efforts and have several times offered to be of help where I can. There is no conflict of ideas here, AT&T was nice to give Universities source licenses for free, other ideas are nice too (GNU), some are not so nice (paying for things I guess), so what? -Barry Shein