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As far as I know he bought that license for one of his student at the time, Alan Edelman, who then ended up co-creating the Julia language.

Interesting, how did you come across this very specific bit of trivia?

Alan Edelman has done a lot of talks, so if I had to guess, he mentions it somewhere in one of those. But I have no actual clue.

He does mention this.

Because he works for the JuliaLab and Alan mentions this bit of trivia all the time.