--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > And the reason why AT&T virtually gave away Unix prior > to 1981, was > specifically because they were barred from selling data > processing > equipment and software..
Prior to 1981, AT&T was only too glad to get contributions to the Unix source code from academe, specifically from UCBerkeley. They were not barred from selling hw and sw prior to 1981 because the court ruling came only in 1982 and was truly implemented only in 1984, when they spun off their local Bell telephone companies, not the software group. AT&T never gave away either Unix source code or binary executables after 1981, even after the court ruling. In fact the period after 1981 was the height of the Unix popularity when Unix licenses were being sold as Sun Solaris, HP-UX, DEC Digital Unix, IBM AIX, etc. After 1985, when Ateneo got its first Unix license, we could only afford to buy SCO Unix on Intel 386, because we could only afford Intel, but we nevertheless had to pay for the commercial SCO Unix license. Pablo Manalastas *** _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
