From this month’s DataLink, describing the September 1968 meeting of the LA Chapter of the ACM:
“For the Chapter meeting, a panel will examine the question, “Separate Pricing for Software”, from the viewpoints of a software company, a broker of programs, and a computer manufacturer. It is expected that the discussion will be highly prejudiced, tense with emotion and perhaps totally devoid of objectivity. The audience will be searched for concealed weapons and large heavy objects before being admitted to the meeting room. Dinner will be served on paper plates and only platic forks and spoons will be used. Hard rolls are not on the menu.”
