Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Bill McMillan <billm>
Subject: Handling Charges for PVM!
Organization: HNW Project, University of Glasgow
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 11:03:05 GMT
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Hi,

Just something you should all be aware of.  The following is an extract
from some publicity material I got NA Software in Liverpool, UK.


> PVM Message-Passing Library (Product Code PVM; Sparc only)
>
> PVM is a de facto standard message passing library, already available on a
> wide range of systems. If you do  not have it  installed, we can provide a
> public domain implementation for a small handling charge.
>
> Product                               Code    Standard        Academic
>                                                Price           Price
> PVM message-passing                   PVM       150             150
>
>                               Prices are in UK pounds, and exclude VAT.


  176 UK pounds as a 'small handling charge'  what a rip-off for *FREE*
  software!!!

  You can get PVM from Netlib in the States or the UNIX Hensa archive in the
  UK - for no fee whatsoever.


  Bill.


