Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!obrien@rand-unix From: obrien%rand-unix@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Re: Adventure in UNIX commands - ksh - (nf) Message-ID: <17355@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 12:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17355 Posted: Fri Mar 9 12:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:08:08 EST Lines: 14 From: Michael_OBrienGuy is right. Binary-ONLY distributions are a very disturbing tendency in AT&T's approach to the UNIX market. I can categorically state that despite our need for something like this technology, The Rand Corporation will never purchase 5620 ("BLIT") terminals as long as their support software is available in binary-only form. I could never recommend that any organization with software maintenance responsibility in the UNIX marketplace buy such a binary-only package. If this is typical of AT&T's thinking in the deregulated UNIX marketplace, I take it as a very bad sign.