Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:9072 comp.unix.questions:7379 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ncar!noao!arizona!naucse!rrr From: rrr@naucse.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: greed and money (was OSF, etc.) Message-ID: <727@naucse.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 19:07:53 GMT References: <846@fig.bbn.com> <1127@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Lines: 24 Posted: Fri Jun 3 15:07:53 1988 mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: > DEC: And which OS do you want on that VAX? > Cust: Whatever's cheapest; we're going to leave it in the box and run >anyway. > > (Why won't DEC sell the things without an OS? Seems like pure greed to > me. Sigh. Or have they changed?) True, very true, but how about this: The other day I called AT&T about a Unix(TM) source license. The lady that answered the phone said it would cost $65,000 but would have a sells rep call me after lunch (it was 9:30 in the morning when I called.) Later that afternoon I got a call from the sells rep and she said it would cost me $77,000 for a Sys5v3 source license. My first thought was this thing has gone up $12,000 dollars in just a few hours. If I want to get it I better do it soon, by the end of the week it gonna cost a few million buck :^) Then I ask what it would cost for something older, just enough that I could get a BSD license. She said `Oh, your not suppose to do that.' Robert R. Rose Northern Arizona University, Box 15600 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 .....!ihnp4!arizona!naucse!rrr