att & osf

Don OConnell dono at killer.DALLAS.TX.US
Fri Jul 29 12:00:25 AEST 1988


>From: bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
>From: kluft at hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ian Kluft)
>>rogers at 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."



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