Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AT&T arrogance Message-ID: <1945@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 15:00:03 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1945 Posted: Sun Dec 2 15:00:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:19:12 EST References: <> <> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Organization: Plaid Heaven Lines: 19 Summary: I have real problems with a company that can consistently send its marketing people to conferences to do product announcements, get consistently yelled at, booed at, hissed at, and almost literally thrown off the stage, and not seem to realize that their customers don't like what they are doing. Everything that AT&T does seems directly against the basic marketing precepts of giving their customers what they want (at a fair price). This is one of the real reasons why I tend to shy away from system V as strongly as I do-- it isn't technical (although I DO prefer the BSD releases) it is simply that dealing with AT&T disgusts me. I'd rather play with an IBM-- their technical stuff isn't the best, but they DO know how to deal with their customers. chuq (they don't care, they don't have to-- they used to be the phone company) -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~