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From: andys@genesis.UUCP (a.b.sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: THE STORE! -- "PD" binaries
Message-ID: <355@genesis.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 08:27:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: genesis.355
Posted: Sun Jul 19 08:27:30 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 21:05:19 EDT
References: <1828@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <977@hoqax.UUCP> <465@cord.UUCP> <1021@unisec.usi.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ
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Summary: The answer is simple, don't take gifts

In article <2388@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> 
>I un-uuencoded the STORE! catalog, found an ASCII cpio archive, and
>took it apart.  From the descriptions enclosed, it looks like this
>"nicely packaged public domain stuff" that you can get in source from
>your friendly neighborhood Usenet site or archive, only comes in binary
>from these turkeys.  A few things have sources, but source is the
>exception, not the rule.

This is absolutely unbelievable.  The STORE! is a FREE, that's
right, FREE service, that is a spare time project of some of the
UNIX-PC support people at AT&T Informations Systems Laboratories.
They have very few sources because the software is intended to be
turnkey software installed under the user agent in an environment
where not everybody owns the development set.  If you don't like the
service, the answer is really simple:  Don't use it.  But don't
refer to the providers of the service as turkeys.  They have gone to
a lot of trouble to get their management to free up some of their
time for this project.  With this kind of thanks, clearly the
company is not getting its money back in good will.

How much free source do you get from IBM?  Why do you only assume
it's your due right from us?  I know that DEC has DECUS, but we also
carry a large share of the burden for moving usenet traffic, and
post a lot of stuff to comp.sources.  Why should we bother?

P.S.  I have NO CONNECTION with the folks who run the STORE!, except
as a customer.  I have no complaints with the way they run it.
-- 
andy sherman / at&t bell laboratories (medical diagnostic systems)
room 2h-097 / 480 red hill road / middletown, nj 07748
(201) 615-5708 / andys@shlepper.ATT.COM
...The views and opinions are my own.  Who else would want them?