Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AT&T and Unix Message-ID: <558@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 01:20:54 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.558 Posted: Thu Jan 24 01:20:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jan-85 07:46:47 EST References: <7338@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland Lines: 28 Summary: > Article <7338@brl-tgr.ARPA>, from Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) +---------------- | Just because you want something does not mean you have a claim on it. | UNIX is AT&T's property and if they want to ask a million dollars for | access to it that is their right. Of course they would be foolish to | do so, but they also have the right to be fools. | ... | You too can form a company to remarket UNIX, or you can develop your own copy | from scratch. If you think that would cost you more than $43,000 | (and you would be right about that!), then you should admit that what | AT&T has to offer is indeed WORTH what they are asking. And, again, you miss the point of his posting. Why does AT&T PLAY FAVORITES? Why do educational institutions -- repeat EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, which (with the exception of UC Berkeley) do NOT act as OEMs or VARs for Unix -- get the source cheap, while small-machine Unix users don't? While this was okay when Unix was a near-nothing, they should pay the same as anyone else does now -- meaning, either AT&T raises proces to universities, or it lowers prices to us. Don't dodge his question, d*mn it. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you) Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?