W91 USENIX in retrospect

[Randal L. Schwartz]

In article <1991Jan31.220216.5438 at csn.org>, dyker at cs (Barbara Dyker) writes:
| Huh?  I know Prentice Hall sells books at InterOp and I saw them at
| Uniforum assuming they would be happy to sell me a book (and bill me
| for 1 cent rounding error later as they did before).
| 
| I can understand a rule not allowing selling of computer products,
| but books?  Noone takes money, but you can't say there was no "selling".

Just passin' on what they told me.  *I'd* have been perfectly pleased
if they could have sold some Perl books at the O'R&A Uniforum booth,
but I was told "no selling".  In fact, they were sending people over
to the little bookstore just down the hallway if they expressed
interest, or taking orders via an order sheet.  But no money exchanged
hands.

Maybe P-H thinks they're big enough that they can get away with it?

Just another Perl book hacker,
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