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<A NAME="contents"><H1>Acknowledgements</H1></A>
<P>We wish a warm ``Thank GNU'' to everybody who has helped in the
development of the Hurd. Here is a categorized list of people who
made significant contributions. If we have omitted anybody, we
apologize... please let us know so that we can update this list!
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<DT>Hurd software</DT>
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<DT>Mark Kettenis</DT>
<DD>many GNU C library and Hurd bug fixes and updates</DD>
<DT>Miles Bader</DT>
<DD>paid by the FSF to help make the Hurd usable as a standalone system,
wrote several important translators</DD>
<DT>OKUJI Yoshinori</DT>
<DD>many gnumach bug fixes and updates</DD>
<DT>Roland McGrath</DT>
<DD>paid by the FSF to design and implement the GNU C library for the Hurd,
as well as many Hurd features, current Hurd C library maintainer</DD>
<DT>Thomas Bushnell, BSG (formerly Michael I. Bushnell)</DT>
<DD>paid by the FSF as primary architect of the Hurd, current Hurd maintainer</DD>
<DT>UCHIYAMA Yasushi</DT>
<DD>ported XFree86 to the Hurd</DD>
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<DT>Debian GNU/Hurd</DT>
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<DT>Gordon Matzigkeit</DT>
<DD>paid by the FSF as a liason from GNU to Debian</DD>
<DT>Marcus Brinkmann</DT>
<DD>bootstrapped the Debian GNU/Hurd base set and many packages, liason
from Debian to GNU</DD>
<DT>Santiago Vila</DT>
<DD>support for cross-compiling Debian packages</DD>
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<DT>Documentation</DT>
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<DT>Derek Upham</DT>
<DD>wrote the original GNU Hurd FAQ</DD>
<DT>Gordon Matzigkeit</DT>
<DD>reorganized and updated the GNU Hurd Reference Manual for release 0.3</D
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<DT>Matthew C. Vernon</DT>
<DD>wrote the ``Idiot's Guide'' for getting started with the Hurd</DD>
<DT>Matthias Pfisterer</DT>
<DD>reorganized and updated the web site in early 1999</DD>
<DT>Stephen L. Favor</DT>
<DD>current FAQ maintainer</DD>
<DT>Trent Fisher</DT>
<DD>wrote the original version of the Hurd pages</DD>
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