Acknowledgements

Ok, i'm going to try and assemble this off the top of my head so you know i'm going to forget or overlook lots of people. Look at this as phase 0 in assembling a list of SCO Skunkware contributors and supporters. We'll improve it over time. Please e-mail rr@sco.com with additions/deletions and corrections. Now to get started...

SCO Skunkware 5 contains software developed and contributed by hundreds if not thousands of individuals from all around the world. We would principally like to thank and acknowledge the efforts of these individuals in creating these useful and/or entertaining programs and especially for placing them in the public domain or otherwise making them available for free redistribution. For the specifics of who these people are, please see the individual README's in the source tree and/or examine the code.

Within SCO there are a number of individuals who have contributed to SCO Skunkware 5. Our (Cheer)Leader and Champion is Dion Johnson. Dion makes it all happen. Assisting Dion and coordinating all of us and all of the other stuff that needs to happen is Kathy Worrell. Thanks Dion and Kathy!

Valuable and timely resource support (including $$) was derived with the assistance of many behind-the-scenes SCO directors, managers, administrators and corporate executives. I really don't know who some of these people are but the list includes :

Louie Boczek

Richard Treadway

John Lehmann

Jerry Morgan

Dion Johnson

Kathy Worrell

Donna Karolchik

Debbie Wash

Anonymous Donors

SCO Skunkware contributors include (here's where i'm going to leave you out) :

Larry Philps: King and Guru of the SCO Porters, contributed at least the following :
archie, bpatch, bsdinstall, cproto, elm2.4-PL24, flock, gnucpio, gnudiff, gnugrep, gnupatch, gzip, ispell, keycode, less, man2html, md5, metamail, mkid, mpack, ncftp, pcal, perl, readline, sc, shar, tcsh, unzip, xarchie, xmcolor, xprompt, xrename, zip, zoo
Tom Kelly: Prince and Pan of the Porters, contributed at least the following :
Mosaic, acm, fly8, flying, groff, libwais, Object Tcl, xearth, xmbase-grok, xpm, xscreensaver
Ron Record: Chief Chef and Master Mixer of the Skunkware Stew, contributed at least :
xpilot, scripts, term, Desktop, ashe, coral, endo, hop, julia, lds, lyap, madness, scripts, splines, spore, stars, viola, willow, xmcd, xtartan, xtopo, xv, xmartin, xgrab, spray, sprinkle, prowl
Ron Hess: Skunkware West Division nominee for Most Valuable Contributor, contributed Fresco, xsw and did all of the Custom-installable work. Also coordinated the GNU development system contribution from Robert Lipe.
Michael J. Hopkirk: Triple Crown Threat and nominee for Most Versatile Porter contributed me, ile, expect, tcl, tk, and more. Also provided excellent testing, timely feedback and expert consulting.
Shawn McMurdo: This year's coveted Smell the Sound recipient, contributed Mesa, Voxware drivers, Soundblaster support, xanim, etc.
David Young: International Skunkware Board "Nihil Illegitero Carborundum Est" finalist, coordinated and contributed to the SCO Visual Tcl contributions.
Olaf Von Bremen: Skunkware East Rookie of the Year, contributed the IXI Visual Tcl ports.
Faith Zack: Skunkware West Rookie of the Year, contributed the SCO Help API.
Hiram Clawson: Contributed freeWAIS-sf and dft
Guy Morrogh: Contributed u386mon.
Michael Shallop: Contributed pine.
Vince Pugliese: Contributed xtetris.
Robert Lewis: Contributed mtools and some other useful terminal communication stuff.
Brandon Estuesta: Wrote, produced, recorded and contributed the audio track for the SCO OpenServer AVI movie.
Andrew Sharpe: Contributed several pages of interesting internet sites.
Bela Lubkin: Contributed lsof, pidentd and lots of advice/consulting.
Roch Skelton: Assisted with the CD-ROM cutting
Dion Johnson: Organized and contributed the Skunkware /tls directory of Technical Level Supplements
John Lehmann: Assisted with the CD-ROM artwork and behind the scenes funding
John Elliott IV: Lynx, CVS, and more.
Mike Patnode: llnlxftp
David Simons: xsm
Micheal Davidson: vg
Brian Moffet: inn
Charlie Stross: awf and more
Georg Edelmann: Valuable testing and prompt feedback
Lori Matsumoto: Cover and CD art

If an SCO Skunkware 5 component does not appear in the list above, then it's a pretty good guess that either Larry Philps or Tom Kelly or myself (Ron Record) ported and contributed it. Or it could be that i forgot to give credit to someone (almost surely). At any rate, please forgive and correct my omissions and errors.

Outside SCO there are also a number of SCO Skunkware contributors. The various ftp and www sites that make available or mirror sources are all to be profusely thanked and supported. This year, Robert Lipe deserves special mention for his diligent efforts in getting us the latest and greatest SCO OpenServer 5 ports of the GNU development system tools. Thanks Robert! In addition to Robert, other non-SCO folks that deserve acknowledgement include Paul Fischer at Open Age Inc. for his several contributions and Craig Larson for the video production and coordination of the super-cool OpenServer 5, OpenCity 5 and OpenTour 5 movies.

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