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  <info><title>Contributors to FreeBSD</title>
    

    <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
      &tm-attrib.freebsd;
      &tm-attrib.sun;
      &tm-attrib.general;
    </legalnotice>

    <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>

    <releaseinfo>$FreeBSD$</releaseinfo>

    <abstract>
      <para>This article lists individuals and organizations who have
      made a contribution to FreeBSD.</para>
    </abstract>
  </info>

  <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As of 2010, the following section is several years out-of-date.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>

  <index/>
</article>