Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!rutgers!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: OSF-DCE for bsd? Date: 3 Aug 1994 04:22:29 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 96 Message-ID: <31n625$9pv@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <31l5hq$gpc@gmdzi.gmd.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu Keywords: OSF DCE bsd In article <31l5hq$gpc@gmdzi.gmd.de> lux@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Lux) writes: ] does anybody know about a version of OSF-DCE for bsd? I just got all my Motif 2.0 ordering information today. On the marketing fluff received, there was the statement "Motif is also the base Graphical User Inteface specification for the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) ...". OSF/CDE is seperately licenseable, but let's see what you are getting yourself into with just Motif... here are a couple of quotes: 2a. OSF/Motif Source License with Full Distribution Rights Initial CPU Source License $15,000 Initial CPU Source License Upgrade from R1.2 Full Distribution $9,000 Additional CPU Source License (royalty copy) $2,000 Additional CPU Source License Upgrade from R1.1 (royalty copy) $2,000 Additional CPU Source License (royalty copy/ OSF ships) $3,000 2b. OSF/Motif Source License with Developer Distribution Rights (Allows distribution of OSF/Motif Executive and Run Time copies only) Initial CPU Source License $7,500 Initial CPU Source License Upgrade from R1.2 Full Distribution $5,000 Additional CPU Source License (royalty copy) $2,000 Additional CPU Source License Upgrade from R1.1 (royalty copy) $2,000 Additional CPU Source License (royalty copy/ OSF ships) $3,000 Upgrade to R2.0 Full Distribution Rights License $15,000 2a. OSF/Motif Source License with Limited Distribution Rights** (Allows distribution of Run Time copies only) Initial CPU Source License $2,000 Initial CPU Source License Upgrade from R1.2 Full Distribution $2,000 Additional CPU Source License (royalty copy) $2,000 Additional CPU Source License Upgrade from R1.1 (royalty copy) $2,000 Additional CPU Source License (royalty copy/ OSF ships) $3,000 Upgrade to R2.0 Full Distribution Rights License $15,000 Upgrade to R2.0 Developer Distribution Rights License $7,500 ... Minimum per copy royalty payments For OSF/Motif R2.0 Full, Developer and Limited Rights License Option A&B - OSF/Motif (2a/2b) Motif Object Code Copy Royalty Fee $40.00 Motif Object Code Copy Royalty Fee for Single User Systems $21.00 Motif Object Code Copy Royalty Fee for Embedded Systems $12.00 Motif Object Code Copy Royalty Fee for Floating User License $40.00 There are price breaks (except for the floating license), that go as low as $10, $5, and $3 repsectively for 160,001 + copies. The minimum proce break is $32, $18, and $10 for 5001+, 1001+, and 5001+ copies, respectively. You can royalty buy-out at $3,000,000/1 year, $1,000,000 for the same thing for a single OS, and $100,00 for embedded systems (X terminals). There is also a limited offer on the Validation Test Suite (VTS), where it will be included at no charge for a single architecture (usually a $10,000 cost) if you purchase a Motif source license values at $7,500, or greater by September 30, 1994 (must complete section 3 of licensing kit). I'm posting this, both to show that the pricing of the Motif for BSD stuff that is out there is not that unreasonable, and to encourage the 1.2.3 distributors out ther to upgrade thair distributions and, hopefully, include CDE in the mix for both Linux and BSD. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.