Contributions

[Rick Stevens]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Dave Stevens wrote:
>>
>> And on that note, do you see any substantial contributions coming from 
>> academics? 
> 
> I don't see much of code but there are a number of people with a 
> background in Academics one way or the other, contributing. Usually, on 
> their own.
> 
> They have salaries too even if they aren't commercial orgs,
>> likewise non-profit orgs and gov't. Didn't DHS contribute scalpel and 
>> foremost? didn't yum come from Duke?
> 
> Seth Vidal used to work as a sys admin in Duke and wrote yum to help 
> automate more of his work. I don't know if I would consider that a Duke 
> contribution necessarily but Duke has helped out in a number of other 
> substantial ways. Hardware and bandwidth for some of the Fedora 
> infrastructure systems for quite sometime for instance.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors

Let us also not forget that Larry Wall worked for the Naval Observatory
when he gave birth to Perl.  In some respects, I wish he hadn't (most
Perl code I've seen is about as spaghettish as Dartmouth BASIC).
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