Status: RO
X-Status: DA

> Companies like IBM and DEC pay  substantial fees to sell
> binary-only copies and must return all bug fixes  and most
> enhancements.

Is it the difference between 'most enhancements' and 'all
enhancements' that causes IBM and DEC pay substantial
fees to sell binary-only copies?  If IBM and DEC returned all
enhancements and published a path to the source code
could they sell the binaries without a license fee?


Tony Tancredi
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