[comp.unix.wizards] Giving away ksh

jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland) (10/14/88)

In article <6861@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kramer@bionette.UUCP (Jack Kramer - CMBL)
writes:
>I called AT&T's 800 software support number to find out about
>getting ksh for our 3B2's.  They said that I couldn't buy it from
>AT&T but that their were public domain versions available.

Did anyone else find it pretty amusing that Mr. Kramer called AT&T's
800 number to ask about purchasing a piece of proprietary software
that AT&T sells for ca. $1-2K (source, site license), only to be
told, "Don't buy it from us, get a bootleg copy"?  Can I get SVR3
source the same way :-)?

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Jim Shankland
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