Why IRIX sucks (was Re: [rescue] Sparcstation 2 help! Please)

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:53:56PM +0100, Alistair MacDonald wrote:
> People are selling copies of the media for as much as $200 on ebay for which SGI gets *nothing*. A low cost licence would cost SGI nothing more (you could easily make the licence apply to a version of IRIX thats a few steps out of date) but would encourage people to buy a licence/media from SGI.

SGI needs a $100 "hobbyist license and media" program like DecPaq
(Tru64 UNIX) is doing.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX