RE: [forum] Community government, new developers, release cycle

["Rich Murphey" <Rich@WhiteOakLabs.com>]

> From: forum-admin@XFree86.Org 
Kendall Bennett writes:
> "Rich Murphey" <Rich@WhiteOakLabs.com> wrote:
> 
> > Actually the founder of all the BSD x86 distributions was a 
> guy named 
> > Bill Jolitz.  He did the x86 port. Nobody probably 
> remembers him.  We 
> > all jumped on his bandwagon.  Then there was the 'patch kit' to 
> > Jolitz' distribution, then came FreeBSD.
> 
> Yep, I remember Bill very well and his series of articles in 
> Dr Dobb's 
> journal about 386BSD. It was what got me started 
> understanding Unix and 
> got me started on installing it on my machine all those years 
> ago. The 
> only thing that really bugged me at the time was reading all the cool 
> articles but not being able to get hold of the source code! 
> That is if I 
> recall what caused the split and how we ended up with FreeBSD in the 
> end...

Bill went other directions, but his code was open source.  In
fact, he insisted that his employment contract with Berkley
ensure that his results were freely available.  That turned
out to be a big benefit for the community because it helped
ensure that the intel port was freely available.

Cheers,
Rich