On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, Dan Cross wrote:

> There were also a lot of gatekeepers. Perhaps not so much in CSRG, but
> certainly in the next tier out: if you weren't part of the in-crowd at
> USENIX and on USENET, it was hard to contribute. Ted has referred to
> this as kowtowing to the "Gods of BSD." He wasn't wrong, though I
> think the dynamic has changed substantially in recent years.

I feel like Bill Jolitz was a sort of Prometheus, with Jolix bringing BSD 
to the masses, when those who were Above®™© didn't take the 386 and 
commodity hardware seriously.

Jolix was a game-changer - though I feel it was like Banquo in the 
Scottish play®™© - "thou shalt get (beget) kings, though thou be none". 
Its descendants (especially FreeBSD and OpenBSD) have been more 
influential in the main than it was.

-uso.