From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 4 22:41:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E02D14DA4 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:41:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA05773; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:40:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:40:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: nm Cc: Javier Henderson , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19991104101153.0136de00@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, nm wrote: > Compaq cannot give Tru64 away because Compaq is required to pay > royalties to companies such as AT&T for legacy code. Wether > Tru64 actually has any of this code in it is another matter. > It's probably cheaper for Compaq to pay the royalties instead of > going to court to prove it doesn't use AT&T's code. > > Most of the money in the $99 price goes to pay royalties for > such code. > I think you're wrong, there. I think Digital had the same relationship with AT&T (far predating the Unix selloff) that Sun has, which means *NO* royalties. Sun sells Solaris7 at $10 for a deal that is much like this, but I do see a difference: Compaq (according to the web page) is tossing in a full set of developer tools; Solaris7 comes free and clear of any such helpful things :-(. > It would be a monetary loss for Compaq to give Tru64 away because > for every copy they give away they would have to pay the royalties > out of their own pocket. > > Nick > > At 07:05 AM 11/4/99 -0800, Javier Henderson wrote: > >Jim King writes: > > > See http://www.unix.digital.com/noncommercial-unix/. It looks like > Compaq > > > is selling Tru64 5.0 for $99 to "non-commercial technology > > > enthusiasts". Sounds interesting... > > > > Heck, they're giving VMS away for free to hobbysits, why > >not do the same with Unix? > > > >-jav > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message