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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:13163 comp.os.os2.misc:91682 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:24196 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2353 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.unix.misc,comp.windows.x.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Subject: Re: OpenStep for $100 Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu Message-ID: <CoKBG4.GMF@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 14:40:52 GMT References: <2op5g8$1u0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <cairnss.766797259@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 30 The thing that makes NeXTStep exciting is the developer's interface builder environment. OpenStep implementation may become more common, but that does not mean the interface builder environment will be available with the OpenStep. Educational prices for NeXTStep is $299 for the OS, GUI and the full developers interface builder environment. You can make free software with this package, but you are restricted from creating commerical software with this package. There is a commerical introductionary deal that contains above, that costs $1000.00. Limit one copy per company. The full-blown developers which is the same as the educational version, except it includes a $45.00 book lists near $3000.00 (if memory servers me right). The non-developer's version (which is where most copies will be purchased for end users) is reasonable priced (in the low hundreds?). This is the level OpenStep clones would be competing. The question was asked why bother and go with something like SCO? It is not the Mach/BSD 4.2+ kernel, it is not even the postscript display, nor the dock, nor the netinfo database, it is the objects in the GUI and the interface builder. A smart person may ask, "If the GUI/interface builder is so great, then why doesn't NeXT pull that off the OS and make it the product?". OpenStep is the first attempt to make the interface a widely used standard like X. It is possible in the future that NeXT will sell the interface builder for other GUIs (don't expect them to ever give this one out free). --mark.