From: entropy@world.std.com (Lawrence Foard) Subject: Re: Ho much USL license(was Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy) Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 22:15:38 GMT
In article <1993Aug7.160721.27689@gtech.com> ayr@node_man.uucp (Aleksey Y. Romanov) writes:
>
>I agree with Evan. But .... Linux has a big advantage over UNIX in the
>area of development resources. There are thousands of Linux and GNU
>enthusiasts and there are tens of engineers developing commercial
>UNIX. And among these engineers there are not many whose business is
>bug fixing. So, as a result We have an advanced standard UNIX environment
>which is too buggy from my point of view. Can the advantages of
>Linux and commercial UNIX be unified in a single product ?
>
>How much is USL(or Univel) source license ? I heard that it is below
>$200,000. I guess that it is possible to find 200 unix-fans (each will
>contribute $1000) in order to found a UNIX company.
Why bother when Linux is already free and better than commercial Unix? I'm
not going to waste time pandering to peoples biases against free software,
Linux is the best development environment that I have ever used. And the
most reasonably licensed of any product available.
>
>The charter of this company has to include:
>
>1. To fix bugs in kernel and utilities and to sell fixed drop-in
> UNIX component replacements on the commercial market,
> The emphasis shall be made on kernel bug fixing and
> drop-in replacements from PD (of free) software.
> The latter one will insure the wider use of free software
> componenets in order to increase development resource base:
> the guy whose job is to port network utilities from say NET2
> release does not have to have access to the licensed source
> code from USL.
>
>2. The Sane UNIX Project. The goal of this project is to make
> an offering of low cost (say below $200 per node)
> PC networking environment. By combining
> in the single product the best of: the debugged core of commercial
> UNIX system, free software, commercial software from different
> vendors (example Motif from OSF, not Moolit). No decision
> has to be made due to NIH decease.
>
>
>I do expect this to have a form of spare time activity for contributors
>at least for a first time.
>
>May be Solaris is a better candidate for such a project I do not know.
>
>Once again, please, do not flame me too much if am totally wrong.
I fail to see the purpose? What advantage does this $200 Unix have
over Linux?
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