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was this engineer who would almost live at the office.  He was the one that
people would go to for sage engineering advice, or to get a good fix on where
they should be going.

Fred believed in quality, and when one of his main products (Ultrix-11) was
going to be retired, Fred fixed every last recorded bug in it.  As a PDP-11
based operating system, it used fifteen overlays and (to my recollection) all
but one byte in one overlay was used.  It was the only Unix product that we
put out which the University of California, Berkeley reluctantly complimented:

		"Ultrix-11 is a pretty good operating system"

So recently, when Fred Canter retired from DEC/Compaq/HP I was sad that I
could not attend his retirement party.  When I related this to a friend of
mine in South America (along with the "FRED" naming desire), my friend took
this to heart and returned to his country with the mission of naming some
software project "FRED".

Recently I received the e-mail below from this friend, Cesar Brod.

Recognize that FRED is not just ANY software project, but will be the most
visible of the Open Source software projects of which are growing in number
and importance in South America.  To have this project named after you is
indeed an honor, and I am glad that honor belongs to Fred Canter.

So Fred Canter, where ever you are, I hope that someone forwards this email
to you, for I do not have your email address.  And I hope that you understand
the respect and admiration that I have had for you all these years.

Warmest regards,

Jon "maddog" Hall
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Hello MD!

We have decided to name FRED our Free Software Content Management 
System. It is going to be big! And we, of course, will thank you for the 
name.

FRED is a MIOLO-based web portal, content management subsystem, designed 
for high volume, scalability and easy integration with database systems. 
Once FRED is built on top of MIOLO, it will make usage of existing and 
future MIOLO features, such as seamless migration to a cluster 
environment, data mirroring/replication and fault-tolerance.

Best wishes,

Cesar



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Jon "maddog" Hall
Executive Director           Linux International(SM)
email: maddog at li.org         80 Amherst St. 
Voice: +1.603.672.4557       Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A.
WWW: http://www.li.org

Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association

(R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries.
(SM)Linux International is a service mark of Linux International, Inc.