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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sun NeWS on the Amiga
Message-ID: <2466@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 20:14:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2466
Posted: Sun Jul 19 20:14:15 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jul-87 03:47:14 EDT
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Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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In article <3577@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	I think the optimal solution would be for SUN to sell the Amiga
>version of NeWS, or license someone to sell it, with a return to SUN.
>After all, they wrote the bloody thing; they're entitled to *something*.
>All we can hope for is that they don't change SUN prices for it.

Why not?  Sun only charges $100 for the binary of NeWS, seems pretty
reasonable to me - of course, source, as seems to be usual for Unix,
is EXPENSIVE.  I'd like to see Sun say "Sure.  You can distribute it,
but binaries only, and we want to see a $100 licensing fee for each
copy, please."  Sounds pretty fair to me - we get NeWS for $100 +
whatever the porter sees fit to charge for his profit, Sun gets $100
per copy, as usual, and everyone wins...

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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"