On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 9:32 PM Doug McIlroy wrote: > > Was patent department that first used Unix on PDP-11 and roff (~1971) > > same department that would later handle Unix licensing two years later? > > (~1973) > > No. The former was the BTL legal and patent department. The latter was > at AT&T (or perhaps Western Electric) > I know all the later contracts were with western electric... we have them due to the bsd/at&t lawsuit, right? Warner >