AT&T and Unix

[Brandon Allbery the tame hacker on the North Coast]

> Article <7338 at brl-tgr.ARPA>, from Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA>
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| Just because you want something does not mean you have a claim on it.
| 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.
| ...
| You too can form a company to remarket UNIX, or you can develop your own copy
| from scratch.  If you think that would cost you more than $43,000
| (and you would be right about that!), then you should admit that what
| AT&T has to offer is indeed WORTH what they are asking.

And, again, you miss the point of his posting.  Why does AT&T PLAY FAVORITES?
Why do educational institutions -- repeat EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, which
(with the exception of UC Berkeley) do NOT act as OEMs or VARs for Unix --
get the source cheap, while small-machine Unix users don't?  While this
was okay when Unix was a near-nothing, they should pay the same as anyone
else does now -- meaning, either AT&T raises proces to universities,
or it lowers prices to us.

Don't dodge his question, d*mn it.

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