Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!phr From: phr@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU (Paul Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Forwarded message (MINIX) Message-ID: <2772@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 01:30:39 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2772 Posted: Sun Jan 4 01:30:39 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Jan-87 05:36:59 EST References: <8701022135.AA07189@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2771@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU> <16065@kestrel.ARPA> Reply-To: phr@hermes.UUCP (Paul Rubin) Organization: Free Software Foundation / GNU Project Lines: 19 In article <16065@kestrel.ARPA> sci@kestrel.UUCP (Mike Liveright) writes: > I talked to the publisher of MINIX {Prentice Hall} about the porting >of the software to other CPU's... it was my impression that they >were feeling their way, and would be willing to: > > 1) Ask NO MORE than the $80.00 that they are asking for the >source code to have the source code and/or run MINIX or a derived system >on a CPU.... > 2) Discuss "volume" arrangements to possibly reduce this >royality further under the "right" conditions... > > As I understand it, the book will be out "real soon now" and it >will be possible to get the source code in a few months. If it is good >code, and can be ported to other CPU's, than I believe i might well be >the basis of a Share-Ware UNIX type system. How can something be "Share-ware" if you have to pay someone for the privilege of having a copy? Wake up, people.