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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 **really** wants to be a rainbow.
Keywords: login
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Date: 10 Nov 89 02:06:15 GMT
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In article <564@unmvax.unm.edu> collins@grumpy.cs.unm.edu () writes:
>In article <4903@yunexus.UUCP> davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>>  One of the first messages I got to see when we set up a DEC loaner
>>was a prohibition to my logging in from another machine: it had
>>too many users on it (I believe two X-windows were open) and would
>>not allow another person to log in.
>>.....

>
>Unix is not only a trademark of AT&T, they wrote it.  AT&T is very interested
>in making sure that they get their royalties from software derived from their
>efforts. People who sell it must have some way of answering to AT&T agreements
>that they must make.(not to say money can't be had on the side.)
> ... 

>Perhaps you are a little unhappy that you lack the user upgrade which may
>be purchased?  Perhaps you too are astonished that DEC, like *other* companies
>wants to make money.

>I don't like it either.  But lets not be naive.  Try not to point figners as
>you only have few, and there are more than these who would have you pay for
>their services.  If you want to be "that way", know what you are doing.

If you buy a machine from most other vendors say MIPS, SGI, Sun, etc.
you find more livable minimal licenses. ATT wants their money, but
they do not mandate what DEC is doing. It is DEC's decision all the way.
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