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From: mls@cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: You get what you pay for (was: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel)
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.022320.6015@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 02:23:20 GMT
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I think people have forgotten *why* UNIX was cheap to schools and,
for a long time not merely expensive but *unavailable* commerically
-- consent decrees about AT&T not going into the software/computer
business.  A *research* effort was smuggled into *research* sites;
and the rest is history.  Now, if AT&T had been *allowed* to sell
software, who knows what would have happened? (probably, UNIX would
have bloated up into an impossibility far sooner :-))  The early
BSD releases were also complicated by entanglements with the baroque
structure American government has become.
-- 
Michael L. Siemon		We must know the truth, and we must
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