On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:38:25AM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Fascinating. As I'd been in Sun OS, and started doing admin work when it became Solaris, I'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 into Solaris, AIX and others.
I didn't know bash till I got to CentOS (I don't remember it in RH 9...),
Yes it was. It was in RH(not EL) 4, which was the first RH I used.
Even the 0.11 "boot+root" combination from 1991 had a version of bash in it! http://gunkies.org/wiki/Linux_0.11 (that was the first Linux version I used)