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...#39;d missed that bit. A question: did the license agreement > include payment, or was it just restrictive on distribution? In 1990, when I started using ksh88, it was totally commercial. Binaries were $$$ and source was $$$$. We bought the source and compiled it for SunOS, Ultrix and various SYSVr[23] machines (one machine was so old it didn't understand #! and so needed it placed as /bin/sh). By 1998, ksh93 was free (as in beer) but was restricted distribution. Eventually ksh93 became properly free, but by this point bash was already popular in the Free-nix arena and had even made it i...

...A question: did the license >> agreement include payment, or was it just restrictive on distribution? > > In 1990, when I started using ksh88, it was totally commercial. Binaries > were $$$ and source was $$$$. We bought the source and compiled it for > SunOS, Ultrix and various SYSVr[23] machines (one machine was so old it > didn't understand #! and so needed it placed as /bin/sh). I just (finally) got into Unix in '91, and didn't do any admin work, just programming, until later in '95, and I had nothing to do with what software got installed, at least to st...

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > > > Bash was bigger than ksh in the non-commercial Unix world because of ksh88 > > licensing problems. Back in 1998 I wanted to teach a ksh scripting > > course to my local LUG, but AT&T (David Korn himsef!) told me I couldn't > > give