Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:14:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: chat Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? Message-ID: <199603192114.NAA01635@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> > Only SVR4 (original AT&T) version need licenses. That is why > > Sun paid $85M to Novell. > > Actually, Sun did it as a "royalty buyout". If it were a fixed cost, > it would be "one time overhead", and the street price of Solaris would > have dropped immediately. It didn't. Seems like a very bad deal now, doesn't it, now that SCO has bought all of Unix for 80M?
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