Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!hoptoad.UUCP!farren From: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: NeWS up and running on Amiga Message-ID: <8707180838.AA26012@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 02:11:39 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.8707180838.AA26012 Posted: Tue Jul 21 02:11:39 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 06:18:24 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 30 Date: Sat, 18 Jul 87 01:38:42 PDT From: hoptoad.UUCP!farren@cgl.ucsf.edu (Mike Farren) Subject: Re: NeWS up and running on Amiga To: news-makers-request@brillig.umd.edu In article <479@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP (Root) writes: [re. an Amiga port of NeWS] > >As for distributing AmigaNeWS, I've been told by Sun that I cannot distribute >it under any circumstances - before you go bashing them, though, remember >that they've had quite a few folks working for YEARS on NeWS, and believe it >or not, they would like to recoup their investment. Can't say I blame them. >Anyways, I hope to get them a copy of the reference port of NeWS so at the >very least they can distribute it to other source licensees. > How about allowing distribution of the binary only at the same cost ($100) as their own NeWS binaries, said money to be payable to Sun? Seems to me that would give Sun income, and allow a nifty new product to be out in the real world, expanding NeWS's utility and exposure. Not allowing distribution of any NeWS ports is certainly gonna restrict NeWS's use -- not all of us have Suns on our desks, after all. -- ---------------- "... 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"