Re: [lm-sensors] lm-sensors history

[Nordine Benkeltoum <nordine.benkeltoum@ensmp.fr>]

Bonjour Jean,

Thank you for your explanation.

Nordine.

Jean Delvare a écrit :
> Bonjour Nordine,
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:39:02 +0200, Nordine Benkeltoum wrote:
>   
>> I'm carrying out a study on Open Source Software.
>>
>> I have a question about lm-sensors:
>>
>> Could you tell me who is at the origin of lm-sensors? Is it a firm or a 
>> non-profit community of volunteers?
>>
>> Thank you for your answer.
>>     
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the lm-sensors project was originally
> created by Alexander Larsson, Frodo Looijaard and Philip Edelbrock, as
> can be seen in the README file of lm-sensors 1.3.0:
>
> http://dl.lm-sensors.org/lm-sensors/releases/lm_sensors-1.3.0.tgz
>
> The former two were already gone by the time I joined the project, so I
> can't speak for them. Philip is still around (which, now that I come to
> think of it, is quite impressive) so hopefully he can tell you.
>
> My understanding is that they were hobbyists working together on the
> project for fun, and there was no company behind it. As you can see,
> the project is quite old, it started in 1998, and I don't think that
> there were many free software projects funded by companies back then.
> This however doesn't mean that the authors weren't using lm-sensors as
> part of their jobs.
>
> Oh, and I should also add that Philip's company, Netroedge, has been
> hosting our web server and CVS repository for 7 years or so. Not sure
> if this qualifies as a sponsorship but this was sure nice from them :)
> The list of donations we received also mentions the name of the other
> companies which have been helping us:
>
> http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/donations
>
>   


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