earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace) (02/18/85)
Holy Salmon BatMan! $5,000 for uucp is a little too much. Please tell me it
isn't so, AT&T! I sure would pay up to $500 for the little beast but no one
around here is going to barf up $5,000. A lot of folks (managers) don't know
why the new uucp is better and I don't think I can cough up $5,000 worth of
reasons to get them to buy it.
Why do I feel that someone somewhere is trying to *KILL* UNIX? Hell, why
screw around with a $5,000 figure, make the buzzard $500,000 or $5,000,000?
Lets charge for each and every utility; cat, grep, ed, sed, etc. Make each
one $10,000 and charge extra if you want the manual. Lets "unbundle" the
manuals, you can buy each page for $200 or any three pages for $700 or
the whole manual for only $2,000! If you throw in another $100, you get a
binder to put the manual in!
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Earl Wallace
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