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From: melohn%sluggo@Sun.COM (Bill Melohn)
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Subject: Re: NFS availability on IBM/RT
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Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 13:57:56 EDT
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In article <236@ndcheg.UUCP> jeff@ndcheg.UUCP (Jeff Kantor) writes:
>The IBM sales rep tells us that Brown has such a thing, but that something
>called an NFS Source License is required to obtain this.  The Sun sales
>rep says this would cost $1K per node which sounds too expensive.  Moreover,
>the Brown Univ. code only works on the old version of the RT.  I would like
>to hear from anyone who might have experience going this route.

I don't understand how the sales forces of IBM, DEC, et al can get away
with such misinformation. The University NFSSRC License is $1000/SITE
for unlimited use on the licensed campus.  Universities may share their
work derived from licensed source only to other universities which are
licensed.  I'm pretty sure that the Brown RT implementation falls into
this category.  There is, of course, no fee payable to Sun for
distribution of public domain implementations.