Unix and AT&T

[BostonU SysMgr]

RE: Message of Lauren Weinstein....

Hear, hear. I agree. One of UNIX's strongest features
is the wide availability of the sources to everything
and it's design which makes it very source supportable
by reasonably able people. I have wasted more of my
life on systems that either wouldn't release the sources
at a reasonable price (or any price) or, when you got
the sources, were so impenetrable that they were nearly
useless. It would be sad to see AT&T bitten badly because
of their sanity. It would be worse yet to see them lose
that sanity, I think some of the reactions in this column
have been over fears of the latter (like all the unbundling
now going on.)

Unfortunately, lawyers will decide all this which means most
anything could happen.

		-Barry Shein

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