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The price may have been symbolic for universities, but AT&T licensed Unix commercially for many tens of thousands of dollars.
by tntn 8y ago
The price may have been symbolic for universities, but AT&T licensed Unix commercially for many tens of thousands of dollars.
- pjmlp 8y agoLearn the history of UNIX, that was almost a decade later, which was when they decided to sue BSD. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/11/16/why-att-licensed-unix-to-universities/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/11/16/why-att-licensed-u... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....
- scruffyherder 8y agoIndeed, it was quite fun to see that in order to bootstrap Research Unix v8, you needed 4.1BSD https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/03/30/research-unix-v8/ https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/03/30/research-unix-...