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From: dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca (Dennis Breckenridge VE7TCP)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T&T&T throws in the Towel (Rebuttal)
Message-ID: <1992Aug10.160208.17482@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca>
Date: 10 Aug 92 16:02:08 GMT
References: <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM> <1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM> <1992Jul27.213657.29545@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jul28.213156.15525@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <1992Jul31.142716.10238@tpki.toppoint.d <BsF532.5p9
Organization: Alchemy Mindworks, Edmonton, Alberta
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tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
[...]
>to have a non-discrimination policy that should be the model for all
>other Fortune-500 companies, if not ALL companies.
You have missed the point of the great flame war. We are not dumping
on AT&T because of the hiring practices. I agree wholeheartedly that
they really take care of minorities internally. What really upsets me
today is their continued silence in response to the great BSDI<->ATT
lawsuit. Short of a couple of mail messages there has been an ear
deafening silence from anyone behind the att.com firewalls. Did they
issue a memo internally, BE QUIET OR BE GONE from Darth Vader himself?
>...we now return you to our regularly scheduled useless flamewar.
^^^^^^^
This flame war is far from useless. You had better read the suite that
USL(ATT) has served to BSDI. If you have ever worked on, touched, supported,
saw a copy lying on an AT&T employee's desk you could be effectively poisoned
from working with any form of U**X o/s development for another company again.
This has my circles going crazy. We have all either worked directly for the
Death Star on Unix support or worked for a university that had a source
license and we all are working on o/s development.
>Tom
> "Hello, DEC? Send me a copy of OpenVMS, please!"
Ok I like the .sig!
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Stupidity, like Virtue, is it's own reward!
Dennis S. Breckenridge dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca VE7TCP
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