[comp.windows.x] Apologies re: OpenWindows licensing

korp@atlantis.ees.anl.gov (Peter Korp) (11/20/90)

In one of my previous postings, I presumed to know more than I do about the
licensing agreement for OpenWindows. My information was from a usually reliable
source outside both Sun and AT&T who this time blew it.

As was quickly pointed out to me by numerous people the $995 media charge is
has *nothing* to do with AT&T. As was posted here in a previous message it
is a charge for the sizeable amount of documentation and media that ships with
OpenWindows. It is therefore a *media* charge only.

Also, I stated that porting OpenWindows to a non-UNIX machine would incur
no licensing fee, this was also incorrect.

I apologize to both Sun Microsystems and AT&T for any misrepresentation of the
OpenWindows licenses and for any damage I may have caused to them.


That said, could someone from Sun or AT&T who *knows* the answers to the
commonly asked questions about the OpenWindows announcement please join the
forum and enlighten us?

Apologies again,

Peter