...and this whole saga, lest we forget (and relevant to the HN crowd), was instrumental in giving rise to the unix wars of the 90s, due to the AT&T copyright di

...and this whole saga, lest we forget (and relevant to the HN crowd), was instrumental in giving rise to the unix wars of the 90s, due to the AT&T copyright dispute with University of California Berkeley. (The relevant point here being not the copyright dispute itself, but the fact that AT&T was not allowed to sell the UNIX system for profit, this being one of the conditions of being allowed to operate as a telephone company.)