28 Jan
2021
28 Jan
'21
1:19 a.m.
Greg A. Woods <woods(a)robohack.ca> wrote:
As I recall even some of the bigger vendors such as
Sun and IBM didn't
offer ditroff in their base OS, but they did offer old troff. Those
were the days of insane AT&T licensing and all the games competitors
played around it.
As I recall, AT&T wanted about the same amount of money for ditroff as
for the entire UNIX release. So, of course no UNIX vendor was going to
double the royalty they paid to AT&T for every customer, for a small
improvement in a utility that most customers didn't even use (troff).
John