bruce@graffiti.UUCP (03/10/86)
My stupid question of the day is...How does one get ahold of Berkeley Unix source code? Is it as expensive as AT&T Unix source? Well that's actually two questions, but it seems reasonable to me that since Berkeley is an educational institution and not a profit oriented business, that its "products" should be less expensive than the other guys. (Although their documentation is expensive as crap! Last time I checked, the Unix Programmer's Manual for 4.1 was approx. $350.00)
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (03/17/86)
> My stupid question of the day is...How does one get ahold of > Berkeley Unix source code? Is it as expensive as AT&T Unix > source? Since Berkeley UNIX source code is a modified version of AT&T UNIX source code, the answer is obviously "yes". It is slightly more expensive; in addition to getting a source license from AT&T, you have to pay UCB some money to cover administrative, distribution, and medium costs. I think it's less than $500, so it's a drop in the bucket relative to the $42K you have to pay AT&T for the first source license. > Well that's actually two questions, but it seems reasonable to > me that since Berkeley is an educational institution and not a profit > oriented business, that its "products" should be less expensive > than the other guys. Since Berkeley didn't create 4BSD from thin air, but started with AT&T UNIX (UNIX/32V to be precise), this argument doesn't apply. -- Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.arpa (yes, really)