Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!apctrc!zjat02 From: zjat02@apctrc.UUCP (Jon A. Tankersley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: To Source or Not to Source (was lp/lpr interface) Message-ID: <481@apctrc.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 88 04:15:48 GMT References: <16370@brl-adm.ARPA> <781@cerebus.UUCP> Reply-To: zjat02@apctrc.UUCP (Jon A. Tankersley) Organization: Amoco Production Co, Tulsa Research Center Lines: 31 In article <781@cerebus.UUCP> ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) writes: >In article <16370@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@cmr.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: >>? In article <16196@brl-adm.ARPA> ronc@cerebus writes: >>? >Well, with BSD, at least you have source. > >Last time I checked, source for 4.3 costs over twenty thousand. (20K >for the ATT license, and another 1K for the BSD tapes.) Not every company >will spring for that. > Twenty thou? Must be black market. AT&T is now selling SVID R3 for seventy- seven thousand. Makes it even harder for companies to spring for the source. I got a related question for the non-vendor UNIX'ers. How many non-vendor sites really have a source license. I've been fighting for about five years (back when it was 43K) to get one, and I can't get anywhere. I could use some ammo :-). I'd like to find out how many non-computer companies have licensed UNIX. I'd like to also yell at AT&T about splitting the rates and adding a middle one for non-educational and non-computer. In the bigger companies, lawyers tend to get involved and frown on some of the license clauses. I'd rather have email than postings. I'll post a composite response (no names) if I get more than 2 requests for such. Thanx -tank- #include/* nobody knows the trouble I .... */ -- #include /* nobody knows the trouble I .... */