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- From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 22:20:16 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Dec23.211523.21846@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1h7tsjINNc62@chnews.intel.com> <1992Dec22.235412.25470@cs.uwp.edu>
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- In a previous article, mpb@troy.cc.bellcore.com (bunz,marcus p) says:
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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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- The USL package includes the source code.
- For an extra $3K.
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