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!gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AT&T and Unix Message-ID: <7338@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 23:04:23 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7338 Posted: Mon Jan 14 23:04:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 04:42:43 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 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. The mass market of UNIX will consist of people who have no need to mess around with their O.S. internals. Adaptations of UNIX to these packages will be made by OEMs and VARs who will pay the license fee and amortize the cost over all the systems they will sell. 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. I would love a $40,000 automobile, but I do not gripe at Ferrari for not selling it to me for $500.