From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 00:07:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609C5106566C for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:07:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEA68FC0C for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:07:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 3488 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2009 00:07:41 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 23 Apr 2009 00:07:41 -0000 Message-ID: <49EFB15A.3010807@telenix.org> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:07:54 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <49EC97DA.5020600@freebsdonline.com> <20090421230721.GF65705@dereel.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20090421230721.GF65705@dereel.lemis.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lists@freebsdonline.com, Rick N , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:07:42 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 at 11:05:24 +0000, Rick N wrote: >> (Actually) and Histrorically, Sun had a lot to do with the BSD's >> (and vice-versa), Bill Joy's early work and contibution to the >> BSD/Unix which later he took to form a little company called Sun >> Microsytems in the late '70's. > > This is more than a slight understatement. Bill Joy created BSD, more > or less single-handedly. Suppose this could be true, but it's not what I read ... that it started with the 4 folks in the CSRG, but began (pretty early on) getting contributions from all over the globe. I wouldn't want to minimize what Bill Joy did, but saying he did it "more of less singlehandedly" seems to be an unfair exaggeration. I guess I would say I was skeptical about giving him that much credit. I wonder if he would agree? God knows, though, that what he DID do was pretty huge. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknvsVoACgkQz62J6PPcoOnx3wCfSpmmZDJUOyvXVuUVWig2okqc AUAAnim0fWGYX8KWq16cjf+kgBrcK5tu =u4im -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----