[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/14/2013 12:47 AM, John Levine wrote:
> Peter always claimed the the Unix license he got at Interactive
> Systems after he and his group left RAND was the first commercial one.


Interactive offered the first commercial Unix /product/.  That's 
different from the software /license/ than Rand got from the Labs.

I've no idea what the legal differences were in the license to Rand, 
versus to those to academic institutions at the time.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
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