Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!root%bostonu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA From: BostonU SysMgrNewsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Unix and AT&T Message-ID: <7294@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:02:32 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7294 Posted: Mon Jan 14 03:02:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:14:23 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 23 RE: Message of Lauren Weinstein.... Hear, hear. I agree. One of UNIX's strongest features is the wide availability of the sources to everything and it's design which makes it very source supportable by reasonably able people. I have wasted more of my life on systems that either wouldn't release the sources at a reasonable price (or any price) or, when you got the sources, were so impenetrable that they were nearly useless. It would be sad to see AT&T bitten badly because of their sanity. It would be worse yet to see them lose that sanity, I think some of the reactions in this column have been over fears of the latter (like all the unbundling now going on.) Unfortunately, lawyers will decide all this which means most anything could happen. -Barry Shein i = 0 ; ^ Bona fide UNIX trademarked source code!