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 A Brief history of sudo(8):
 
-The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's.
-In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo and released it
-to the public.  For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by
-a handful of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob
-Manchek, and Trent Hein.
+Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff
+Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
+SUNY/Buffalo.  It ran on a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD.  An updated
+version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips,
+John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources newsgroup
+in December of 1985.
+
+In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version
+of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
+of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
+Trent Hein.
 
 In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
 with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
@@ -27,7 +33,12 @@ In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
 been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
 (the original authors now work elsewhere).  As of version 1.6, Sudo
 no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
-available with a BSD-style license.
+available under an ISC-style license.
+
+In 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial
+support and enhancements to the sudo community.
+
+In 2005, GratiSoft was put on hold.
 
 sudo, in its current form, is maintained by: