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<title>Contributors to FreeBSD</title>
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<abstract>
<para>This article lists individuals and organizations who have
made a contribution to FreeBSD.</para>
</abstract>
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<sect1 xml:id="donors">
<title>Donors Gallery</title>
<note>
<para>As of 2010, the following section is several years
out-of-date. Donations from the past several years appear
<link
xlink:href="&url.base;/donations/donors.html">here</link>.</para>
</note>
<para>The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and
would like to publicly thank them here!</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Contributors to the central server
project:</emphasis></para>
<para>The following individuals and businesses made it
possible for the FreeBSD Project to build a new central
server machine, which has replaced <systemitem
class="fqdomainname">freefall.FreeBSD.org</systemitem> at
one point, by donating the following items:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>&a.mbarkah.email; and his employer, <link
xlink:href="http://www.hemi.com/"> Hemisphere
Online</link>, donated a <emphasis>Pentium Pro (P6)
200MHz CPU</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.asacomputers.com/">ASA
Computers</link> donated a <emphasis>Tyan 1662
motherboard</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Joe McGuckin <email>joe@via.net</email> of
<link xlink:href="http://www.via.net/">ViaNet
Communications</link> donated a <emphasis>Kingston
ethernet controller.</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Jack O'Neill
<email>jack@diamond.xtalwind.net</email>
donated an <emphasis>NCR 53C875 SCSI controller
card</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Ulf Zimmermann <email>ulf@Alameda.net</email> of
<link xlink:href="http://www.Alameda.net/">Alameda
Networks</link> donated
<emphasis>128MB of memory</emphasis>, a
<emphasis>4 Gb disk drive and the
case.</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Direct funding:</emphasis></para>
<para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
contributed direct funding to the project:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Annelise Anderson
<email>ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.dillon.email;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.bluemountain.com/">Blue
Mountain Arts</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.epilogue.com/">Epilogue
Technology Corporation</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.sef.email;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.gta.com/">Global
Technology Associates, Inc</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Don Scott Wilde</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gianmarco Giovannelli
<email>gmarco@masternet.it</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Josef C. Grosch
<email>joeg@truenorth.org</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Robert T. Morris</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.chuckr.email;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Kenneth P. Stox
<email>ken@stox.sa.enteract.com</email> of <link
xlink:href="http://www.imagescape.com/">Imaginary
Landscape, LLC.</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk
<email>dk@dog.farm.org</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.cdrom.co.jp/">Laser5</link> of
Japan (a portion of the profits from sales of their
various FreeBSD CDROMs).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.mmjp.or.jp/fuki/">Fuki
Shuppan Publishing Co.</link> donated a portion of
their profits from
<emphasis>Hajimete no FreeBSD</emphasis> (FreeBSD,
Getting started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86
projects.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/">ASCII
Corp.</link> donated a portion of their profits from
several FreeBSD-related books to the FreeBSD
project.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/">Yokogawa
Electric Corp</link> has generously donated
significant funding to the FreeBSD project.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.buffnet.net/">BuffNET</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.pacificsolutions.com/">Pacific
Solutions</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.siemens.de/">Siemens
AG</link> via Andre Albsmeier
<email>andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Chris Silva
<email>ras@interaccess.com</email></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Hardware contributors:</emphasis></para>
<para>The following individuals and businesses have generously
contributed hardware for testing and device driver
development/support:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>BSDi for providing the Pentium P5-90 and
486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our
development work, to say nothing of the network access
and other donations of hardware resources.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.compaq.com">Compaq</link>
has donated a variety of Alpha systems to the FreeBSD
Project. Among the many generous donations are 4
AlphaStation DS10s, an AlphaServer DS20, AlphaServer
2100s, an AlphaServer 4100, 8 500Mhz Personal
Workstations, 4 433Mhz Personal Workstations, and more!
These machines are used for release engineering, package
building, SMP development, and general development on
the Alpha architecture.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>TRW Financial Systems, Inc. provided 130 PCs, three
68 GB file servers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an
ATM switch for debugging the diskless code.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Dermot McDonnell donated the Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
drive currently used in freefall.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Chuck Robey <email>chuckr@glue.umd.edu</email>
contributed his floppy tape streamer for experimental
work.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Larry Altneu <email>larry@ALR.COM</email>, and
&a.wilko.email;, provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02
tape drives in order to improve the
<filename>wt</filename> driver.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Ernst Winter (<link
xlink:href="http://berklix.org/ewinter/">Deceased</link>)
contributed a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This
will hopefully increase the pressure for rewriting the
floppy disk driver.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.tekram.com/">Tekram
Technologies</link> sent one each of their DC-390,
DC-390U and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter
cards for regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers
with their cards. They are also to be applauded for
making driver sources for free operating systems
available from their FTP server <uri
xlink:href="ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/">ftp://ftp.tekram.com/scsi/FreeBSD/</uri>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Larry M. Augustin contributed not only a Symbios
Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books,
including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with
Ultra-2 and LVD support, and the latest programming
manual with information on how to safely use the
advanced features of the latest Symbios SCSI chips.
Thanks a lot!</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>&a.kuku.email; donated an FX120 12 speed Mitsumi
CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver development.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mike Tancsa <email>mike@sentex.ca</email> donated
four various ATM PCI cards in order to help increase
support of these cards as well as help support the
development effort of the netatm ATM stack.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Special contributors:</emphasis></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><link
xlink:href="http://www.osd.bsdi.com/">BSDi</link>
(formerly Walnut Creek CDROM) has donated almost more
than we can say (see the 'About the FreeBSD Project'
section of the <link
xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD
Handbook</link> for more details). In particular, we
would like to thank them for the original hardware used
for <systemitem
class="fqdomainname">freefall.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>,
our primary development machine, and for <systemitem
class="fqdomainname">thud.FreeBSD.org</systemitem>, a
testing and build box. We are also indebted to them for
funding various contributors over the years and
providing us with unrestricted use of their T1
connection to the Internet.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <link
xlink:href="http://www.interface-business.de/">interface
business GmbH, Dresden</link> has been patiently
supporting &a.joerg.email; who has often preferred
FreeBSD work over paid work, and used to fall back to
their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet connection
whenever his private connection became too slow or flaky
to work with it...</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><link xlink:href="http://www.bsdi.com/">Berkeley
Software Design, Inc.</link> has contributed their DOS
emulator code to the remaining BSD world, which is used
in the <emphasis>doscmd</emphasis> command.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="staff-committers">
<title>The FreeBSD Developers</title>
<para>These are the people who have commit privileges and do the
engineering work on the FreeBSD source tree. All core team
members are also developers.</para>
<para>(in alphabetical order by last name):</para>
&contrib.committers;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-corealumni">
<title>Core Team Alumni</title>
<indexterm><primary>core team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD core team
during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past
efforts in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological
order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.corealumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-develalumni">
<title>Development Team Alumni</title>
<indexterm><primary>development team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD development
team during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past
efforts in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological
order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.develalumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-portmgralumni">
<title>Ports Management Team Alumni</title>
<indexterm><primary>portmgr team</primary></indexterm>
<para>The following people were members of the FreeBSD portmgr
team during the periods indicated. We thank them for their past
efforts in the service of the FreeBSD project.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological
order:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.portmgralumni;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-develinmemoriam">
<title>Development Team: In Memoriam</title>
<indexterm><primary>development team</primary></indexterm>
<para>During the many years that the FreeBSD Project has been in
existence, sadly, some of our developers have passed away.
Here are some remembrances.</para>
<para><emphasis>In rough reverse chronological order of their
passing:</emphasis></para>
&contrib.develinmemoriam;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-derived">
<title>Derived Software Contributors</title>
<para>This software was originally derived from William F.
Jolitz's 386BSD release 0.1, though almost none of the original
386BSD specific code remains. This software has been
essentially re-implemented from the 4.4BSD-Lite release provided
by the Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) at the University
of California, Berkeley and associated academic
contributors.</para>
<para>There are also portions of NetBSD and OpenBSD that have been
integrated into FreeBSD as well, and we would therefore like to
thank all the contributors to NetBSD and OpenBSD for their
work.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-additional">
<title>Additional FreeBSD Contributors</title>
<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
&contrib.additional;
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="contrib-386bsd">
<title>386BSD Patch Kit Patch Contributors</title>
<para>(in alphabetical order by first name):</para>
&contrib.386bsd;
</sect1>
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