From: gregb@murphy.com (Greg Banschbach (Unigroup of New York)) Subject: Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects Date: 8 Oct 1992 12:38:52 GMT
In article <1al9j6INN9q2@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>>>There may be a role for a profit-making company to make a $50
>>>shrink-wrapped free Unix with a manual and limited support.
>
>>o $54 for a boot floppy and tape distribution.
>>o $66 for a CD ROM distribution.
>>o $116 for a floppy only distribution.
>>How does $1000 sound? Like BSDI?
>
>Ok guys: how does Coherent do it? :-)
>
>There you are -- a Profit making company, with manuals and support,
>floppy distribution (albeit smaller than any of Linux et al), all
>for $100. They have to even write the OS ;-)
>
>Some say their support ain't great shakes. I wasn't hoping for more
>than non-800 number help in installation.
>
> -ans.
>--
>Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
I just send mail to Terry Lambert about your comments. Perhaps
we can figure some things out. He made some pretty relevant
points about the legal aspects ( you could lose your shirt ).
Greg ( gregb@murphy.com )
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