Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:05:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: AT&T (was: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8)) Message-ID: <19981222130508.Y85005@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <367E2735.E62A6558@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:47:17AM %2B0000 References: <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com> <Your <4.1.19981220151248.00ac5c60@genesis.ispace.com> <199812202020.MAA46296@rah.star-gate.com> <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981220213341.009a9160@genesis.ispace.com> <367E0725.4749B7CB@uk.radan.com> <19981221201918.E8445@caamora.com.au> <367E2735.E62A6558@uk.radan.com>
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On Monday, 21 December 1998 at 10:47:17 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > AFAIK, the US telephone system has always been privately owned and has > therefore had competition from day one. You need to look into the history of UNIX more carefully. AT&T was not state-owned, but it was very definitely a monopoly until it was broken up. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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