Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 12:17:16 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Charles Green <chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX Specification Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960303121547.10333B-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <485.825830358@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > X/Open seem to think they have one. But again I'm not too familiar > > with the politics involved. But I would like to see FreeBSD branded with > > the official UNIX name. Rather that UN*X-like... > > Brother, can you spare approximately $90,000? :-) > > That's about what it will initially cost for the validations suites > alone, plus a $50K/year contract to keep it active. And the per-copy > royalties for each and every copy sold as "UNIX" - that could easily > run another $50K, depending. > > Trust me, I've talked with X/Open a fair bit about this, and I've done > my best to explain the uniqueness of our situation. To date, however, > their prices remain unchanged and thus so also does our "UNIX" brand > status. The money for validation I can understand, if not sympathize with. The royalties cost, that seems without justification. Do you think there'd be any chance that BSDi might go that way? > > > Jordan > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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