Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!amdcad!sun!hoptoad!farren 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 References: <478@sbcs.UUCP> <1386@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <3577@well.UUCP> Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) Distribution: comp Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 19 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... -- ---------------- "... 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"