From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu,  7 Sep 1995 11:44:18 -0400
From: presotto@plan9.att.com presotto@plan9.att.com
Subject: Why?
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>> the license [for Amoeba] costs sixtY thousand dollars. (yes, it's 60
>> K$).
>
>> 	Is Plan 9 expensive?
>
>I just read, in a Swedish computer magazine, that a commercial source
>license for Plan 9 would go at $200,000. I don't know if that is
>official or just a rumour in the computer business.

Heh, heh.  Sounds like the blind pencil seller 
on the street corner selling pencils for $1,000,000 apiece.
``You won't sell many pencils at that price'' says the
passerby.  ``I only have to sell one'' says he.

There is no fixed price for a commercial license (i.e.
a license which lets the buyer resell products or services
based on the released software).  We will wheel and
deal with anyone that wants to consider it.  We've floated a
few prices but nothing is tacked down since it does
depend on the what is being resold, support expected,
etc.  Ee might settle for a little up front and a piece
of the action or a lot up front and nothing else.

Contact the AT&T Software Solutions Group to haggle:
1-800-462-8146 or 1-415-943-4076.

Of course companies can use Plan 9 internally on as many
computers as they like for $350 total.