Conspiracy Theory: Unix Growth as Deliberate AT&T Strategy to Hobble Competitors
The article describes a conspiracy theory popular among ITS and TOPS-20 operating system fans that claims Unix's growth was the result of a deliberate plot by Bell Labs in the 1970s. According to the theory, AT&T disseminated Unix as an apparently inexpensive and portable system that was actually unreliable and insecure, creating dependency on AT&T for futur
