Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.unix Subject: Re: Re: ksh availability Message-ID: <567@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 00:45:12 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.567 Posted: Mon Mar 11 00:45:12 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 09:19:37 EST References: <10005@ulysses.UUCP> <15757@mgweed.UUCP> <162@sesame.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 30 Xref: linus net.followup:3709 net.unix:3242 > Well, I don't know about you, but it only cost me $800 for UNIX, including > the csh. Now they want to sell me the "ksh" for another $2000. No thanks. > This is one piece of software that for the price deserves to be pirated! Point 1: If you got source for that $800, AT&T got ripped off and their lawyers will want to get somebody. The $2000 for "ksh" is for the *source* - that means if you don't have a UNIX source license, you probably can't get "ksh" source for $2000 anyway. Point 2: That $2000, if you could get it, is an *organization-wide* license. That's not $2K per machine. That's $2K per UNIX system licensee. If you have 1 site, or 10 sites, or 100 sites, you pay $2000 *once* and may then put "ksh" up on all 1, 10, or 100 machines. Point 3: There is a separate provision for binary licenses. Any company that wants to offer "ksh" in binary form to their binary sublicensees pays, I think, $20K - again, a *one-time* payment. They may then offer "ksh" to all their binary licensees for whatever price they want to charge (and can get). Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy -- Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy