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Aucbvax.2597 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Mon Aug 10 11:28:48 1981 unix licenses for small machines >From gray@Berkeley Mon Aug 10 11:19:03 1981 About 20 months ago Al Arms of Western Electric announced that WECO had made a special licensing arrangement for Unix V7. The arrangement allows license fees based on the number of users. Once an organization had worked out details with WECO that organization could have Unix on a single user machine for $750. Each additional user that a given machine could support would cost about $400 more. This scheme works until you reach the magic number $9400 which is the cost for unix without a special arrangement. This is the licensing arrangement that allows Onyx to sell Z8000 boxes with unix for reasonable prices. Microsoft also is in this category. Anyway, i'm trying to get this arrangement in place for the DoD. The work I'm involved with will need at least three such licenses for 11/34's with DeAnza displays. I've been trying to get DoD and WECO to get this agreement in place and things are moving very slowly. If there were lots more requests from other DoD sites or DoD contractors i think things would move faster. Anyone who thinks they could use cheap V7 licenses for small systems please send me a note. Bob Gray

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