Re: A bit of BSD history question

["Steve Mynott" <steve.mynott@xxxxxxxxx>]

You may have seen it but the best history is

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html

This seems to suggest the idea was basically from Keith Bostic (the
author of nvi and much else).

On 7/9/06, elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know a bit about the BSD OS history, however Ive been wondering lately,
> what or who had made the initiative in the BSD community of developers to
> free and open the source? Any influences from GNU and R. Stallman or
> something like that?