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From: mb@ttidcb.UUCP (Michael A. Bloom)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: AT&T and Unix - The real issue
Message-ID: <250@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 20:15:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 27 20:15:27 1985
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Reply-To: mb@ttidcb.UUCP (The Root-Vax )
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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Summary: Educational discounts will not dry up

>I would not be surprised if sometime in the near future the educational
>source discounts dried up.  Now that UNIX has a real market, AT&T doesnt
>really need them anymore.

I can't agree with this.  UNIX's livelihood depends upon the existance
of UNIX programmers.  The reason that there are so many of such has
been AT&T's educational pricing.  If AT&T's educational discounts
were to dry up, so would the supply of unix programmers, and later
UNIX* itself.

* UNIX(TS) is a trade secret of AT&T Bell Laboratories
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