On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:53 AM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > William Stein, for example, says > "His [RJF's] experience is not based on him actually successfully > having led > any nontrivial open source software development projects. He has no > credentials at all there, as far as I know. Yet, he is speaking > about exactly that topic. " > > Um, I suppose my experience with Berkeley UNIX would be relevant, > though > one could argue that (a) I wasn't a sole proprietor in terms of > leadership; > (b) It wasn't open source, but beholden to AT&T [though with > participation > of many sites], and (c) was overtaken by Linux and therefore not > successful? > (d) not relevant because it wasn't written in python? > > Some history.. > > http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Twenty_Years_of_Berkeley_Unix:_From_AT%26T-Owned_to_Freely_Redistributable
According to that page you were one of 14 people who co-authored a grant to buy a computer, your group installed UNIX on it, and you asked somebody else at Berkeley to ask their student to write some code. There's no mention of you doing anything else at all on that page. - W -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
