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In article <44825@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
>In article <3526@rosie.NeXT.COM> Lyle_Scheer@NeXT.com (Lyle Scheer) writes:
>> Um... Gee, I don't think $250 would cover the royalties that NeXT pays for  
>> using such things as:  Unix....
>
>Considering (a) UNIX is free for i386/i486 machines now,
>that part of the royalties might go away in a year or two. 
>I'll admit 386bsd is buggy and short on features, but
>we've been working with it here and think it'll be up to
>snuff in a few months.  It'll probably be up to "End User"
>quality inside of 2 years.  

In fact, if companies were to get together and improve the public
version, it could be "End User" much much sooner than "inside of 2
years".  Of course, the chances of this happening are "inside of 1%"
:-).  I suspect what will happen is that most companies will take
advantage of the situation by snarfing a public version, fixing
the bugs and adding their mods, and turn around and sell the balance
for lots of money ... the absence of royalties should decrease the
price by, oh, $25.  :-(. 

Later,
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