The KORN SHELL

[John Canning]

Someone asked, and then Thad answered:
>
>+ Has anyone ported ksh88e to the 3b1?  [and is it legal to snarf the ksh88e
>+ sources on OSU ??]
>
>WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!  If that's on osu-cis, someone's gonna be in deep doo-doo.
>
>ksh88e is a COMMERCIAL PRODUCT of AT&T and costs $3,000 for source and some
>$10,000 for binary (you figure WHY binary costs more than source! :-)
>

The source code for ksh88e costs $3,000.  The right to sell/distribute
the binaries costs $10,000; the source comes with this right.  That is
why the binary seems to cost more than the source.