Exactly my thought when I read this. IIRC he wrote one of the early TCP/IP implementations as well, which a lot of OS' still use a derivative of. And dns and

Exactly my thought when I read this. IIRC he wrote one of the early TCP/IP implementations as well, which a lot of OS' still use a derivative of. And dns and mail rely upon. The wikipedia article links specifically to a sadly abandoned project that Salon had years ago to document the free software revolution. http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_par... I've always remembered it and wished they'd finished but it sadly seems to have stopped getting new entries in '01: http://dir.salon.com/topics/free_software_project/ http://dir.salon.com/topics/free_software_project/