Awe13.110 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxd!houxc!hound!houti!houxt!houxn!houxg!lime!we13!rjk Wed Jan 13 08:50:51 1982 WECo UNIX sales It has been the policy of Western Electric to distribute (for sale) UNIX systems which were one release below the internal releases. This is so that we could not be accused of selling "front end" technology in a competitive market place. It was ruled that distributing older versions of UNIX was simply "sharing the knowledge" with the rest of the world. Based on the recent DOJ rulings, outside releases of UNIX may someday nearly correspond to the internal releases. In any case, a learned user of UNIX will tell you to never become confortable with what you've got. As soon as you understand it and use it a lot it will become obsolete. If you discover a bug they will document it as a feature. The viscosity of UNIX is extremely low; the mixture changes constantly. This may be why UNIX is so popular and well loved/hated. Have you ever heard of anyone getting bored with UNIX? (D.M.R. excluded) we13!rjk ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.