AT&T and Unix

mwm at ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA mwm at ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Sat Jan 26 12:17:54 AEST 1985


In article <558 at ncoast.UUCP> bsa at ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) writes:
>> Article <7338 at brl-tgr.ARPA>, from Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA>
>+----------------
>| 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.
>And, again, you miss the point of his posting.  Why does AT&T PLAY FAVORITES?
>Why do educational institutions -- repeat EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, <...>
>get the source cheap, while small-machine Unix users don't?

I give. Why does AT&T play favorites? :-)

	<mike



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