Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin – Ch. 16

“Richard Stallman had long wanted a GNU replacement for the UNIX
kernel. A first pass, Trix, barely got going in the late 1980s.
This changed, however, when Thomas Bushnell came to Boston and
joined the GNU effort.

“Thomas was born in Albuquerque, NM. He attended Carnegie-Mellon
University for a year (1985-86), the University of New Mexico for
nearly two years, worked, enrolled at the University of
Massachusetts Boston, and received a B.A. summa cum laude in 1999
in philosophy and classics. Thomas is a brother in the Brotherhood
of St. Gregory, an Episcopal order. He received his M.A. in
Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, in 2003 and
is currently a Ph.D. candidate there…”

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