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From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: Re: What is "BSD"?
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Kaleb KEITHLEY (kaleb@x.org) wrote:
: And then, just to take the other side of the coin for a moment, who are 
: the principles of BSDI? If it's McKusick et al, then who, if anybody, is 
: more deserving of ownership of the BSD name?

I don't know about McKusick, but Mike Karels and Chris Torek work for
BSDI.

Mike Karels is a co-author of the 4.3 BSD Unix OS book, and Chris Torek
was the last big BSD developer at UCB.

Others may have more detailed information.
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