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From: dono@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Don OConnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: att & osf
Keywords: att & osf
Message-ID: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 29 Jul 88 02:00:25 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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>From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
>From: kluft@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft)
>>rogers@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers) writes:
>>> Does AT&T membership give respectability to the OSF crowd?
>>
>>Actually, it was AT&T and Sun who were lacking in respectability after
>>trying to steal the whole market for themselves.
>
>"Steal" is a very strange choice of words to apply to the owner (AT&T).







Strange "owner".

They didn't want anything to do with it's creation or even support
until a lot of different people were enthralled with it.


It is only the greed of the corporate environment that makes ATT want to
have anything to do with UNIX(Although they are not alone in this philosophy).

Signed Don
"One who only has 2 cents worth to give."