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From: tdxsys@dartvax.UUCP (TDX sys Mark Mullen)
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Subject: Re: $5,000 for a uucp?
Message-ID: <2769@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 20:04:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 20:04:14 1985
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> Holy Salmon BatMan! $5,000 for uucp is a little too much.  Please tell me it
> isn't so, AT&T!  I sure would pay up to $500 for the little beast but no one
> around here is going to barf up $5,000.  A lot of folks (managers) don't know 
> why the new uucp is better and I don't think I can cough up $5,000 worth of 
> reasons to get them to buy it.  
> 
> Why do I feel that someone somewhere is trying to *KILL* UNIX?  Hell, why
> screw around with a $5,000 figure, make the buzzard $500,000 or $5,000,000?
> Lets charge for each and every utility; cat, grep, ed, sed, etc.  Make each
> one $10,000 and charge extra if you want the manual.  Lets "unbundle" the
> manuals, you can buy each page for $200 or any three pages for $700 or
> the whole manual for only $2,000!  If you throw in another $100, you get a
> binder to put the manual in!  
> -- 
> Earl Wallace
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Hell, let AT&T try it.  The only reason a *highly* skilled community has not
bootlegged UN*X to a great level is because it is not financially feasible.
Speaking as an X system trasher, I could care less.  If I can't afford the
software, I'll consider *stealing* it.  Seriously folks, the only one who
is really hurt by gouging such as this is the naive user and the parent
of the software package.  However, I *do* hope that AT&T regains their
senses.  They don't *make* UN*X, W E    D O  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!