On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:14 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:56:09PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Actually, AT&T Unix was free - I don't think they were allowed to sell it. > > We acquired Unix edition 5 but never got it to run > > because it didn't have drivers for the computer we were using (pdp-11/23). > > They couldn't sell it initially, but eventually--I believe the first > commercial release was System III, around 1982 or so, based on research > version 7--yes, they did. The non-commercial versions were "research > Unix". And commercial Unix Wasn't Cheap. Under the terms of the 1956 Consent Decree, AT&T basically couldn't sell anything not directly related to phone service. After the breakup of AT&T this restriction was lifted. Unfortunately the only thing they knew how to sell was phone service, and that in a monopoly situation. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
