You may have seen it but the best history is http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
This seems to suggest the idea was basically from Keith Bostic (the author of nvi and much else). On 7/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know a bit about the BSD OS history, however Ive been wondering lately, what or who had made the initiative in the BSD community of developers to free and open the source? Any influences from GNU and R. Stallman or something like that?
