[Am-info] Ick.

[James S. Huggins]

Bell Labs offers free access to Plan 9 code
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000608E6EE

James S. Huggins



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>
> In actuality,  Bell Labs researchers say that the breakup and subsequent
> split-off of Lucent affected Bell Labs hardly any at all. Bell Labs had
never
> been funded to the extent that AT&T liked to boast -- remember, Unix was
created
> because Dennis etc. could not get a "real" timesharing system into the
budget
> and used a bunch of cast-off machines for creating Unix, and they had the
> dickens of a time getting their first high-end PDP-11 (one with memory
> management and 512K of memory!).  The only real post-breakup effect is
that
> it's no longer as easy for researchers to release their code, because it
has to
> be passed via the appropriate authorities to make sure it couldn't be
> commercialized :-(.