Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:35:23 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: At Large Message-ID: <199709100735.RAA19463@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <199709090409.VAA13111@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Tue, 09 Sep 1997 04:09:55 %2B0000" References: <199709090409.VAA13111@implode.root.com>
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On Tuesday, 9th September 1997, David Greenman wrote: >>"Although not many of >>his fellows in the Laboratory for Computer Science knew it, Mycroft >>was on the board of Free-BSD, an international project that worked, >>like the Free Software Foundation, to create a version of Unix >>without code from AT&T." > > 1) FreeBSD didn't exist in 1991-1992 But 386BSD was all the rage at that time. It would be easy for a slightly fuzzy memory to forget the original name of FreeBSD's roots, or to bend reality while trying to simplify it. > 2) There's only one mycroft at MIT that I know about, and he was never part > of the FreeBSD "board" or development. But he was a patchkit contributor. So it looks like another one of those little history rewrites that the world regards as fact but which amuses those who were actually there. Situation normal. :-) Stephen.
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