Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cithep.UucP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!cithep!gre From: gre@cithep.UucP (G. R. Emlin) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AT&T applies the long silver Screw Message-ID: <60@cithep.UucP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 08:05:22 EST Article-I.D.: cithep.60 Posted: Thu Nov 29 08:05:22 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 06:47:59 EST References: <5590@seismo.UUCP> Organization: Caltech HEP, Pasadena, CA Lines: 39 In article <5590@seismo.UUCP> mo@seismo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) writes: > Well boys and girls, in case anyone out there doubted their motives > for a moment, AT&T has just vividly shown their stripes. > > I just got off the phone from calling the 800 number to order a copy > of the latest BLTJ and I am hopping mad!! > > $27.50 the want for the thing!!!!!!!!!!!! I asked the person at > "AT&T Commercial Sales" what happened to the reasonable price for > reprints of BLTJ and the response was "the price was reasonable when > it was being done by Bell Labs, and they aren't doing it any more." > I think I would have pled the 5th Amendment before saying that. > Moreover, I called the Circulation Group at Bell Labs and they curtly > informed me I had to call the 800 number. At which point I again > asked about the outrageous price, and was told "Well, we aren't > in the giveaway business any more." > > Compared to most other CS books printed, it is probably a good value > for the dollars spent, but other issues of BTLJ don't cost that! > Just the one they think everyone will want!!!! To quote from the > front of a recent issue, "Single copies of most issues of the Journal > are available at $5 ($6) foreign,..." While subscriptions to the > Computing Science and Systems section is only $10 per year!!!!!! > Subscriptions for the entire BLTJ are only $35 a year!!! > > Well boys and girls, it is a cinch that Unix would have never > become what it has (and AT&T would probably not have had a > post-divestiture product!) if they had been this way in the > beginning. This is pretty shoddy treatment of the people who > have worked to make it possible for AT&T to display such arrogance. > > "Unix: from now on, consider it dead." > -Mike O'Dell There is no truth to the rumor that the authors of the UNIX* System special issue of the AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal are planning to post all of their articles to net.sources. - GR