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Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group

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From: Kaleb Keithley
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:19
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In article  dls@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Louis Smith) writes:
>In sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) writes:
>> The article then admitted that only 5000 motif
>> licenses were sold to date on Sparc Stations 
>> which they said were less than 1% of Sparc Stations.
>
>	5000 Motif licenses from who though?  OSF?
>	You can bet that a *lot* of people have 3rd party binary-only
>   Motif distributions on Suns.  Much more than 5000.
>	Not everyone gets Motif from OSF.

Whether you buy from OSF or a third party, you're still required to pay
the per CPU runtime license fee.  For more information, talk to someone
at OSF or the third party.

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Kaleb Keithley                               kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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From: kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group
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