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Author: Michael F. March
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Subject: History question
There we not just 'a telco', they were *THE* telco.

When the '84 breakup happened, then AT&T started to
try to milk the Unix cow.

> Because they were not allowed to sell it! They were a telco and had
> restrictions on what they could charge for and how.
>
> On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 09:45, Jim wrote:
> >
> > I know that Unix was developed by AT&T in the early '70s. My question
is why
> > was Unix originally free? Certainly AT&T knew the value of the product

that
> > they were creating. Any helpful links lurking out there in the minds of

PLUG
> > members?
> > - --
> > Jim
> >
> > Freedom is worth preserving
> >
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