Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!jeff@AIDS-UNIX.ARPA From: jeff@AIDS-UNIX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: News article on AT&T Message-ID: <1349@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 19:21:36 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1349 Posted: Wed Jun 27 19:21:36 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 30-Jun-84 07:17:07 EDT Lines: 15 From: Jeff Dean Well, you've got to realize that, for a long time, AT&T equated the idea of selling Unix with giving it away. Marketing didn't want to have anything to do with providing Unix to the outside world. And Scanlon's claim that this university "give away" was good marketing is rubbish! Marketing had nothing to do with it (at least, not in the early days). Next thing you know, AT&T will be claiming their marketing staff asked the Labs create Unix because of the market potential for a good portable operating system. (You don't think that their marketing people could be serious about selling an operating that was developed by a couple of guys with beards in an attic?)