Comments on: Bill Joy joins Kleiner Perkins http://venturebeat.com/2005/01/18/bill-joy-joins-kleiner-perkins/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:59:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: What happens when nanotech begins to poison us? » VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2005/01/18/bill-joy-joins-kleiner-perkins/comment-page-1/#comment-801252 What happens when nanotech begins to poison us? » VentureBeat Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:45:31 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/vc/?p=213#comment-801252 [...] aren’t entirely new concerns. Bill Joy, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, has been strident in his warnings about the many dangers of nanotechnology. Others have also [...] [...] aren’t entirely new concerns. Bill Joy, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, has been strident in his warnings about the many dangers of nanotechnology. Others have also [...]

]]> By: Lynne Jolitz http://venturebeat.com/2005/01/18/bill-joy-joins-kleiner-perkins/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Lynne Jolitz Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:52:21 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/vc/?p=213#comment-286 So, Bill "designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX - the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet" according to Kleiner... Well, if Berkeley Unix was open source way back in 1982 when I was an undergrad, why was it licensed by AT&T? And why did anyone care about Linux and 386BSD if it already was open source? Bill has done such great work in Berkeley Unix, especially in sockets - he's renowned rightly. A pity that Kleiner doesn't feel that's enough for them. So, Bill “designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX – the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet” according to Kleiner…

Well, if Berkeley Unix was open source way back in 1982 when I was an undergrad, why was it licensed by AT&T? And why did anyone care about Linux and 386BSD if it already was open source?

Bill has done such great work in Berkeley Unix, especially in sockets – he’s renowned rightly. A pity that Kleiner doesn’t feel that’s enough for them.

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