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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!wjolitz From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: 386BSD Release: Contributors Only Please... Date: 22 May 1993 00:01:26 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association Lines: 44 Message-ID: <1tjqgm$bfc@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1te9h8$8fn@agate.berkeley.edu> <67823@mimsy.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu In article <67823@mimsy.umd.edu> jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes: >In article <1te9h8$8fn@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: >>386BSD Contributors: >> >>Carnagie-Mellon University MACH Project >>Free Software Foundation >[plus lots of worthy individuals] > >You forgot the biggest one: > > UCB Computer Systems Research Group and their contributors > >Jaime >............................................................................ >: Stand on my shoulders, : jds@cs.umd.edu : James da Silva >: not on my toes. : uunet!mimsy!jds : Systems Design & Analysis Group As I've said already, contributors to *THIS RELEASE* ... Keith contributed personally (and he's on). I think the comment in your signature line is most ironic given the context of your "response". Cooperation in public access software is at the heart of the issue, and is unfortunately sorely misrepresented. In any case, my hat is off to those that did the work, trusted and helped us to make 386BSD a reality, instead of trying to walk off with the ball for private and personal gain. It shall be "freely modifiable and redistributable", regardless of intrigues, "mind games", "ego wars", or "politics". The proof that this is so is in your hot little hands. As it will be yet again. And nothing nasty can ever take that significant piece of history away, as we move on to the future. For those who choose to play other games, I'm sorry, perhaps we will be able to cooperate again sometime in the future when it is not colored so much by the failures of the "old UNIX gods". Sigh. The reward is in having done the work that made the difference. I'm grateful to those who have allowed me the chance to make such a difference. Thank you, Bill.