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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sun NeWS on the Amiga
Message-ID: <3577@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 06:12:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3577
Posted: Sun Jul 19 06:12:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 22:40:18 EDT
References: <478@sbcs.UUCP> <1386@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Organization: Hole Earth 'Lectronic Loss (or words to that effect)
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In article <1386@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) writes:
>In article <478@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP (Root) writes:
>>I have a port of Suns NeWS window system up and running on the Amiga.  For
>...
>>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.
>
>Gee, isn't it a shame. Now here's something that could potentially be
>really useful to many sun users and amiga users, particularly in academic
>environments. But...sorry folks. It's too bad that SUN doesn't view this
>as a way to increase sales of suns...and hence put the Amiga end of it
>in the public domain. [ ... ]

	Now, before everyone starts bashing SUN over the head and accusing
them of being a**holes for not releasing NeWS, consider the following
hypothetical scneario:

	An institution (doesn't matter what kind) wants a LAN.  By some
miracle, they get an array of Amigas with Ameristar Ethernet boards running
NFS.  Then someone drops NeWS on the machines, and Voila!  Everyone's
speaking PostScript (the merits of which are another flame entirely).  Note
that there is not a single SUN hardware product in sight, and SUN sees no
financial return for this scenario.

	Somehow, this doesn't seem fair to SUN, or the people who wrote
NeWS.

	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.

	So, try not to bash SUN too hard.  They don't deserve it nearly as
much as EA :-) :-) :-) :-) :-).

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