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by pjmlp 1073 days ago
Those wouldn't have been as successful if AT&T had been allowed to sell UNIX at the same prices as VAX/VMS, instead of having source tapes available for a symbolic price.

It isn't as if C would have been a commercial success, had it come with a price tag.

Plan 9 and Inferno commercial successes, and Limbo adoption, are a clear example of how it would have gone instead.