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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Remote File Sharing (RFS) - SVR3
Message-ID: <7478@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 11:39:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 11:39:43 1987
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Keywords: RFS, SVR3

> It appears to me that all the vendors that purchase a license to SVR3 get
> RFS for free with it, and it is ported to SVR3.  
> 
> At a cost of $25,000, plus more for later updates, license fees, and the cost 
> of porting it to SVR3, NFS gets prohibitive fast.  

Unfortunately, licensing SVR3 is not something that can be taken for granted,
since the license contains some troublesome clauses about mandatory SVID
compliance that have made a lot of vendors think twice about it.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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