Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!lll-crg!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: hoarding Unix Message-ID: <1528@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 15:28:50 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1528 Posted: Fri Dec 19 15:28:50 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 02:12:58 EST References: <961981.861214.KFL@MX.LCS.MIT.EDU> <3983@nsc.NSC.COM> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 15 In article <1082@ihdev.UUCP> dlr@ihdev.UUCP (55224-D. L. Ritchey) writes: > ... The so-called "hoarding of information" and >"wrongness" of someone selling software for a profit are what has >produced much of the software used to operate and use the network we are >now reading article from. Actually, one reason Unix runs this network is because AT&T was prohibited from selling it! As a result, they gave it to universities, and it gathered a following. Based on what AT&T has done since they *can* sell it now, we are all lucky it got a start before the, uh, competitive types killed that nice research result. -- John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa Call +1 800 854 7179 or +1 714 540 9870 and order X3.159-198x (ANSI C) for $65. Then spend two weeks reading it and weeping. THEN send in formal comments!