Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:03:33 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Shady <rls@server.id.net> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX Specification Message-ID: <199603032003.PAA13370@server.id.net> In-Reply-To: <26452.825878493@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 3, 96 10:41:33 am
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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.
Have you seen the current BSDI pricing? $995 for binary license, and
$2995 for source license...
-- Rob
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