[TUHS] Unix single-machine licensing (was Re: Re: ACM Software System Award to Andrew S. Tanenbaum for MINIX)

[Al Kossow]

On 6/19/24 8:47 AM, Clem Cole wrote:

> That's how I remember Otis Wilson explaining it to us as commercial licensees at a licensing meeting in the early 1980s.
> We had finally completed the PWB 3.0 license to replace the V7 commercial license (AT&T would rename this System III - but we knew it as PWB 
> 3.) during the negociations   Summit had already moved on to the next version - PWB 4.0.  IMO: Otis was not ready to start that process again.

Is the really early history of Unix licensing documented anywhere?
The work on reviving a Plexus P20 prompted me to put up the history of Onyx and Plexus at
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/plexus/history and a long time ago someone who worked at Fortune
told me we can all thank Onyx in 1980 for working out the single machine licensing with
AT&T