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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 and 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
@@ -29,6 +35,9 @@ been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
 no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
 available with a BSD-style license.
 
+In 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial
+support and enhancements to the sudo community.
+
 sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
 
        Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>