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Re: Tom in Doom3?

Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>

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From: Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2004-08-06T06:24:56Z
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Mike Mascari wrote:

> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Hey Tom,
> >
> > Did you rate a mention in the Doom 3 readme file? :)
> >
> > --- 4. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
> >
> > DOOM 3 is linked with the JpegLib, copyright (c)1991-1998 Thomas
> > G. Lane/Independent JPEG Group. All rights reserved. ---
> >
> > Cool :)
>
> I remember Lamar Owen had found some site which determined the major
> contributors to open source software and it read something like:
>
> 1. UC Berkeley
> 2. MIT
> 3. Tom Lane
> 4. Carnegie Mellon
> 5. IBM

Not to mention his success as a college wrestler:

http://www.prep.fairfield.edu/On_Campus/Athletics/Wrestling/12_17/tom_lane.jpg

:-)

Gavin