[Auugps] ex-ADFA lecturer, Warren Toomey, wins USENIX award

[steve jenkin]

Warren & The Unix Heritage Society should be well known to long term AUUG members.

His definitive collection of Unix kernel source played a pivotal role in the SCO case,
disproving the claim “lots of stuff copied”,
and also showing code from contributors, like UNSW’s “all faults fixed” kernel,
was included without attribution.

Warren, via TUHS, became the issuer of “Ancient Unix” licenses when Novell (IIRC)
allowed V6 code to be published again.

It’s worthwhile scrolling the list of awardees - Warren is in very fine company.

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
> Subject: [TUHS] Warren wins Usenix award for TUHS
> Date: 8 Dec 2022 at 02:12:29 AEDT
> To: TUHS main list <tuhs at tuhs.org>
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> https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame
> 
> Well deserved, Warren! We are all in your debt.
> 
> Doug

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