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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by chasil on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:55AM (#32277749)
I think also that BSD (and later Linux) made UNIX free, and I assume Plan 9 was not.

UNIX was also written to run on minimal hardware. Even if Multics had been open-sourced, UNIX would still have won.

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by pjmlp on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:03AM (#32277859)
UNIX has been free since V6, that is why it got adopted by everyone, and then AT&T sued Berkley when they got the opportunity to actually be allowed to charge for it.
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