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Date:      Sun, 03 Mar 1996 10:41:33 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Charles Green <chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIX Specification 
Message-ID:  <26452.825878493@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Mar 1996 12:17:16 EST." <Pine.OSF.3.91.960303121547.10333B-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> 

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> The money for validation I can understand, if not sympathize with.  The 
> royalties cost, that seems without justification.

Yep, especially (as I put it to X/Open) since it penalizes us for
doing exactly what we exist for doing, namely shipping out as many
copies of the software as possible.

> Do you think there'd be any chance that BSDi might go that way?

At the current prices that X/Open is asking?  I seriously doubt it.

					Jordan



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