but why bsd? if they have sfos, they must have mer. would they only pick the kernel?
George Neville-Neil | Chief Software Architect George Neville-Neil, Chief Software Architect for both Aemaeth and Turing Space Industries, published his first piece of commercial software while still in college. He has worked on research projects with the University of Cambridge and the University of Twente in the Netherlands and produced commercial software for companies such as Wind River Systems, who -- along with NASA -- put a bit of his code on Mars with the Pathfinder probe. Neville-Neil teaches at conferences, and while at Yahoo Inc. developed the Paranoid University, a training program for technical and non-technical employees covering all aspects of secure programming practices. He is the author of two leading books on operating systems, the latest co-authored with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Robert N. M. Watson, “The Design and implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, Second Edition” and the columnist better-known as Kode Vicious, producing the most widely read column in both of ACM’s premier flagship magazines, "Queue" and "Communications of the ACM." He chairs the ACM Practitioner Board, which is dedicated to bridging the gap between research and industry, and he helped create the ACM Applicative conference. Neville-Neil has been a FreeBSD committer for more than 10 years, and he currently serves on the elected core team. He is on the board of directors of the FreeBSD Foundation. Neville-Neil holds a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University.