🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2B4061C0.3F79@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
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> [ ... stuff about support policies deleted ...]
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>I, for one, will hardly mourn the departure of AT&T from USL's
>ownership (and thus, leadership). Novell may not be any better,
>but it can't possibly be worse.

It can if Novell refuses to re-license all the non-Novell vendors, or
increases the price to the levels associated with Netware.  That would
kill any derivatives of UNIX for all but a few corporate sites, and
would certainly kill any chance of being able to choose among vendors.
I sure hope Novell does't do that - I cannot afford 12 - 18K for a home
UNIX site.  And a 'reasonably' priced version that is crippled to only
3 to 5 logins, and/or by removal of other features (such as the networking
capability, compiler and libs, etc., unless many extra thousands of
dollars are paid) is not something that I would look forward to, either.

That is somnething I have not seen discussed (or heard of anything from
Novell indicating a policy) - will the price for OS software derived from
USL code remain the same, go lower, or be increased by a factor of 6?

Anybody know?  <while I sit here chewing on fingernails...>

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