i'm not sure if rsc's "plan 9 kernel history" includes the contributors'
name in the file diffs, but it is worth a look.

http://swtch.com/plan9history/



On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Sakis Kasampalis <s.kasampalis@zoho.com>wrote:

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> Are there any notes/facts about why Dennis Ritchie was not more involved
> with Plan 9? According to his page http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ he
> only contributed a few bits and pieces (whatever that means). I don't
> know when his health problems started but it seems that he could join
> the early versions of the system.
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> - --
> How does one put together a democracy based on the concept of equality
> while running an economy with ever greater degrees of economic
> inequality?    -- Lester Thurow, MIT, Shifting Fortunes (1999)
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