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To: Robert Shady <rls@server.id.net>
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Subject: Re: UNIX Specification 
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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 12:25:17 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > At the current prices that X/Open is asking?  I seriously doubt it.
> 
> Have you seen the current BSDI pricing?  $995 for binary license, and
> $2995 for source license...

That's expensive, yes, but consider that nobody really wants
*anything* to cut into their profit margins, so I still see it as
unlikely that BSDI is going to want to give up a substantial chunk of
change to X/Open.

					Jordan