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- From: mpb@troy.cc.bellcore.com (bunz,marcus p)
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 21:15:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.211523.21846@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- References: <1h7tsjINNc62@chnews.intel.com> <1992Dec22.235412.25470@cs.uwp.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.235412.25470@cs.uwp.edu>, datta@cs.uwp.edu (David Datta) writes:
- > Blair P. Houghton (bhoughto@sedona.intel.com) wrote:
- > : In article <2B360E6C.369@news.service.uci.edu> mwu@orion.oac.uci.edu (Matt Wu) writes:
- > : >I just heard that Novell bought USL. What does this mean?
- >
- > : Real customer service; a business-computing thrust that the
- > : system has lacked since the epoch; and that Ma Bell has just
- > : given away control of the OS that runs her international
- > : telecommunications hegemony.
- >
- > Ummmm, since when has Novell offered "real" customer service?
- > --
- > -Dave datta@cs.uwp.edu
- > "Such abuse would be illegal and is therefore unlikely."
- > - FBI Director William Sessions
-
- There was a time when UNIX support was pretty good, you just had
- know who to talk to in Murry Hill. Of course that was 15 years ago!
- Perhaps the best part of the early days of UNIX was that you got the
- source code, and could fix it so it would do what you wanted. I guess
- the days of the shade tree UNIX hacker are truely over.
-
- Marc
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