mark@elsie.UUCP (06/28/84)
<> Aparently, the Berkeley lawers have decided that 4.2 bsd is so good, and their business is so poor that they can screw their liscensees around to their hearts content. They won't even negotiate. Did you know it's illegal for any Government agency to sign the 4.2 BSD liscense? More about THAT later. -- Mark J. Miller NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC UUCP: decvax!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!elsie!mark Phone: (301) 496-5688
WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA (07/03/84)
From: "William G. Martin" <WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA> About UCB not negotiating and government purchases of licenses: The earlier posting may be based on old info, or a situation I am unfamiliar with. We (an Army activity) have a 4.2 BSD license for host ALMSA-1. There was extensive negotiation and thousands of dollars worth of time expended on this $600 procurement, before our procuring activity's lawyers and UCB's lawyers finally agreed. It took well over a year. We had started out to buy 4.1 BSD, but got 4.2 BSD eventually, as it had come out in the meantime. I was (luckily) not involved directly with the action, but received status reports on it from time to time. It became a painful standing joke around here for quite a while. Will Martin USArmy DARCOM ALMSA, St. Louis, MO -------
ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA (07/03/84)
From: Ron Natalie <ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA> Negotiating. The infuriating thing here is that we had a signed agreement with Berkeley (their TERMS!) and they still refused to ship any copies to the Government because soemone (probably ALSMA) was giving them a hard time. -Ron