Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!jimomura From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Cost of OS-9 is about the same as cost of Unix. Message-ID: <814@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 21:09:56 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.814 Posted: Sat Sep 28 21:09:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 01:41:28 EDT References: <511@petrus.UUCP> <974@druxo.UUCP> <575@sftig.UUCP> <798@lsuc.UUCP> <153@l5.uucp> Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto Lines: 34 Summary: How cheap can endusers get it? In article <153@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >In article <798@lsuc.UUCP>, jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: >> The cost of licensing OS-9 isn't unreasonably high. If you check >> around, you'll find that it's generally licenced for about $100.00 U.S. >> The Shack is able to sell it for as little as $70.00 Canadian. > >Somehow I got the impression that a single-user Unix license (the real >thing from AT&T) could be gotten in large volumes at less than $100. >This includes a license to run *ALL* the Unix utilities, all the >languages, etc. (The people who divide it all up into dozens of separately >priced $300 floppies are just ripping you off.) > >I suspect OS-9 fits better into a system with a 300K floppy and no hard >disk, making it a better deal for the $100 for that kind of system, but >that wasn't the question. I heard that $100.00 price too. As for the repackagers, well, I don't know that they really rip people off. If they do a reall port, ie with all the hardware interfacing completed, and provide support (which I hear ATT doesn't), then the $300.00 isn't all that bad. Keep in mind that the $100.00 general price of OS-9 is what I see for *ready to run* OS-9 software. You don't have to spend hours trying to get it up. How much is your time worth? Most pros charge around $50.00 from what I've heard. Believe me, you will *not* get generic Unix up in 6 hrs! Still, the *real* point should be that *many* alternatives other than ground up software would have been reasonable enough to consider. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura