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From: kolstad@BSDI.COM (Rob Kolstad)
Subject: Re: Jolitz: The Road Not Taken
Message-ID: <1992Mar20.020055.26568@uunet.uu.net>
Summary: Roads that were taken
Keywords: 386BSD, Jolitz, motivation
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 02:00:55 GMT


I believe, in the interest of fairness to all concerned, that the net should
have some additional information about Bill Jolitz's recent posting.

I joined BSDI on December 1, 1991.  Here's what I know:

Bill Jolitz was one of the founders of Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
(BSDI).  As with any profit-making venture, he had to have known from the
beginning that BSDI systems would be made available in source form, but
would not be freely redistributable -- those were tenets of the company.

Bill was a full time employee of BSDI for 11 months of 1991 -- from
January 1, 1991 through November 30, 1991, actively contributing to both
the "encumbered" product and the modules which were donated to Berkeley.

All code that Bill developed through June 30, 1991 was contributed to the
BSD project, as was all work performed by the two other BSDI employees
during that period.  That work was included as part of the Berkeley NET2
distribution, the most recent distribution made by Berkeley.  This
donation forms a significant portion of "386BSD Release 0.0".  The code
written by Jolitz and other BSDI employees was not developed without
compensation, nor was it developed solely by Jolitz.

BSDI is not attempting to impede creation of free BSD systems.  Moreover,
BSDI has made significant contributions to make them possible.

My comments on the requirements for sustaining the viability of an
operating system are on record.

						Rob Kolstad
						Program Manager

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