Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry 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 Article-I.D.: utzoo.7478 Posted: Mon Jan 5 11:39:43 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 11:39:43 EST References: <261@unixprt.UUCP>, <371@oblio.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 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 {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry