Coda File System

Re: An Apology

From: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc_at_mcc.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:16:21 +0100
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 01:46:19PM +0100, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> To my horror, I find the
> following in an article published about the talk in LinuxWorld:
> 
>      Coda is a highly reliable network file system created
>      by 20-year veteran systems administrator Owen LeBlanc.
> 
> Please understand that I have never claimed any credit for writing
> Coda, and this is a complete misrepresentation of my talk.

Further to this, I have received a message from the author of the
article, T Bruce Tober, in which he writes:

> Further investigation by myself reveals that it was a copyediting error
> at the magazine. I wrote in my original story, which I submitted to the
> editor, "He describes himself as "notorious for having written the Linux
> fdisk program." Somehow that got translated into you writing Coda. The
> error will be corrected.

Thanks for your patience with this issue.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc_at_mcc.ac.uk
Received on 2000-07-28 09:18:16