wayne@ames.arpa (07/31/87)
Is anybody out there in Netland as mindboggled as I am at AT&T's
latest stunt with the UNIX manuals?
(For those who haven't seen yet, the latest UNIX "manuals" are
individual paperback books, with a nice glossy cover with a
full-color graphic of the word "UNIX" doing something obscene
to the world. But nowhere in the graphic does the magic
incantation "System V" appear, so AT&T has published an
official "erratum" that "corrects cover graphic" by inserting
into every book a single sheet of regular paper with a black-
and-white version of the cover -- with "System V" superimposed
on the graphic!)
I suppose it's all for legal reasons, and by making it an "official"
erratum some lawyer somewhere must be sleeping easier, but I just
don't care -- I for one have no plans whatsoever to tear the cover off
MY book and tape on that new sheet of paper! (I realize I'm risking
all to the UNIX System Everything License Enforcement Stormtrooper
Squad ["USELESS"], but I guess I'm just too much of a rebel ...)
Anyway, just thought it sort of humorous ... (And the laughing at the
cash register actually made it a little easier to stomach the PRICES
of the books! One small one is actually priced at more than 50 cents
per [Xeroxable] page! With prices like that, maybe they should be
looking into copy protection for their MANUALS ...)
Cheerily,
Wayne Hathaway ultra!wayne@Ames.ARPA
Ultra Network Technologies
2140 Bering drive with a domain server:
San Jose, CA 95131 wayne@Ultra.COM
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