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From: dennisg@pwcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Distributed Unix BOF at Usenix
Message-ID: <900@pwcs.StPaul.GOV>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 18:58:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: pwcs.900
Posted: Wed Jun  3 18:58:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 05:09:23 EDT
References: <35271d8e.1d22@apollo.uucp> <5916@brl-smoke.ARPA> <353b29a4.c366@apollo.uucp>
Reply-To: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner)
Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works
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In article <353b29a4.c366@apollo.uucp> mishkin@apollo.UUCP (Nathaniel Mishkin) writes:
>In article <5916@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>>In article <35271d8e.1d22@apollo.uucp> wyant@apollo.uucp (Geoffrey Wyant) writes:
>>>Apollo Computer would like to invite you to a Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF)
	Etc, etc.
>computing, then EXCUSE ME.  I thought this was a "birds of a feather"
>session; I wasn't planning on wearing a jacket and tie.
>-- 
I have watched this 'little discussion' with some interest and
thought there might be some 'light' that I could shed on some of
the possible 'feelings' that some might have on this subject. The
gentleman who is offended above may well be a software engineer
who has never been offended or threatened by the sales and
marketing methods used by his company. I have been offended by
the sales methods used by Apollo ( IBM like - go to the superiors
and use political pressure rather than technical discussion ) and
perhaps others have as well. 

Hopefully, Apollo will do a native Unix port, and quit trying to
tell all of us that Aegis is so much 'better'. As far as their
'right' to have a BOF , I think that BOF 'rules' should always be
pretty loose - to encourage whatever might happen that the
attendees want to happen. 

-- 
Dennis Grittner		City of Saint Paul, Minnesota
(612) 298-4402		Room 700, 25 W. 4th St. 55102