From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 5 8: 1:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586A2154DB for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA18036; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:01:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18726; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:01:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id LAA35944; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:01:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:01:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199908051501.LAA35944@lakes.dignus.com> To: billf@jade.chc-chimes.com, gallatin@cs.duke.edu Subject: Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14249.41585.89026.815133@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Bill Fumerola writes: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm > > > > The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes. > > > > Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Cool. > > > > http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/Research/GIGABIT.HTM > > Yes, my boss decided he wanted his 15 minutes of fame ;-) > > I tried hard to get FreeBSD a bigger mention than the rather poorly > worded one that ended up coming out, but to little avail. After all, > it is the BSD TCP stack that deserves the bulk of the credit; we were > basically in the right place at the right time. > > It was very annoying that the person who wrote the local News & > Observer article seemed disappointed that we were not running linux & > probably because of that, didn't mention the OS at all in her article. Yes - I noticed the conspicuous absence of any mention of BSD in the News & Observer article. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message