From: jazz AT softway DOT com (Jason Zions) Subject: Re: fork2 16 Nov 1997 08:26:37 -0800 Message-ID: <346F1C42.67A33535.cygnus.gnu-win32@softway.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Fox Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > It appears to me that using OpenNT will add upwards of $1000 to the > price of each copy of the resulting shrink-wrapped application. Not based on any reading of the price list I've been able to make. And any vendor of a shrink-wrapped app who would like to investigate the use of OpenNT should contact sales AT opennt DOT com to find out what the actual price would be to bundle. > This > doesn't seem like a viable option for the typical Windows application. The typical Windows application is written to Win32, anyway. The relevant model is the typical Unix application brought over to Windows. The disparity between Unix-app pricing and Win-app pricing is well-known; there's a lot of room for a ported Unix app to get cheaper than its Unix-side cousin. Jason Zions Softway Systems Inc. http://www.opennt.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".