Conspiracy Theory: Unix Growth as Deliberate AT&T Strategy to Hobble Competitors
[ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's…
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