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From: paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Some Q&A's about HP-UX 8.0 and X11R4
Message-ID: <1357@prcrs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 90 23:14:57 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.100152@dali.gatech.edu> <1990Dec17.113709.8929@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Dec17.113709.8929@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>, rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
> 
> It's disk quotaing that is possibly HP's biggest faux pas. That is a
> desperately required feature of HP-UX, especially in an academic situation
> with 100's of undergrads, and I feel that 8.0 should be 'free' to those
> without a support contract, simply because rival manufacturer's (Sun springs
> to mind) have had disk quotaing for many years.
> 
> Richard K. Lloyd,       *** This is a MicroVAX II running VAX/VMS V5.3-1 ***
> Computer Science Dept., * JANET     : RKL@UK.AC.LIV.CS.AND                 *

This is the second time in a week that someone from the academic world has 
opined that they should get free upgrades because HP is adding features that 
other vendors have had for awhile.  

Do you guys run your own business this way?  For example, when you offered 
your first C++ course, did you offer all of your former students free C++
training?  Do you routinely do this for every course, excluding only those
courses which your university offers before any other?  

Perhaps some of your colleagues will argue that bug fixes, not new features,
should be free.  But again, do you offer to reteach, for free, anyone who 
attended a course which later is found to contain incorrect information?

If you do operate in this manner, how do fund it?  After all, like operating
systems, an education in computer science is never really complete.  

Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   uunet!prcrs!paul    (703) 556-2243
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