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Article #1866Documenter's Workbench Pricing Policy
From: John Lynn Roseman
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 1990 18:18
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 1990 18:18
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>> [ From AT&T Bell Labs ]
>> We are counting on vendors and VARs buying the source license,
>> then reselling binary at a reasonable price.
> [ From DWB user ]
> DWB 3.1 has been available for over 2 months.
> Tell me one VAR who has it available (2 months should be ample
> time for a product that's easily portable).
The distribution fees for DWB 3.1 were substantially increased
over those for DWB 2.0. For the record, here are the fees charged
by AT&T USL (800-828-UNIX):
DWB 2.0 DWB 3.1
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Source License $4,000 $15,000
Sublicensing Fee $3,000 $ 5,000
Minimum Per Copy Fee $ 10 $ 120
(Royalty for binaries)
DWB 3.1 does include LaserJet, PostScript and X Window support,
but this represents exactly the value that VARs have already
added to DWB 2.0. VARs seem to be reluctant to pay $20,000 and
an order of magnitude increase in royalties when the most advanced
troff software (like the MONK text compiler) remains unreleased.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!urban!jlr From: jlr@urban.UUCP (John Lynn Roseman) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Documenter's Workbench Pricing Policy Keywords: troff, DWB Message-ID: <102@urban.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 90 18:18:58 GMT Organization: Urban Applied Science Lines: 25