The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

S. The logging format used by the MTA known as syslog was at first used solely by sendmail but eventually became an unofficial standard format used by other unrelated programs for logging. McKusick is a lead developer of BSD; the two first met in graduate school.

Eric Paul Allman (born September 2 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley.