
#include "bacula_template.inc" title="Thanks"

<h1>Thanks</h1>
Thanks to Richard Stallman for starting the Free Software movement and for
bringing us gcc and all the other GNU tools.
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Thanks to Linus Torvalds for bring us Linux.
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Thanks to all the Free Software programmers. Without being able to peek
at your code, and in some cases, take parts of it, this project would have
been much more difficult.
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Thanks to John Walker for suggesting this project, giving it a name,
contributing software he has written, and for his programming efforts
on Bacula as well as having acted as a constant sounding board and
source of ideas.
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Thanks to the apcupsd project where I started my Free Software efforts,
and from which I was able to borrow some ideas and code that I
had written.
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Special thanks to D. Scott Barninger for writing the bacula RPM spec file,
building all the RPM files and loading them onto Source Forge. This
has been a tremendous help.
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Thanks to Dan Langille for the <b>incredible</b> amount of testing
he did on FreeBSD. His perseverance is truly remarkable. Thanks also
for the many contributions he has made to improve Bacula (pthreads      
patch for FreeBSD, improved start/stop script and addition of 
Bacula userid and group, stunnel, ...), his continuing
support of Bacula users. He also wrote the PostgreSQL driver for 
Bacula and has been a big help in correcting the SQL.
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Thanks to Phil Stracchino for writing the gnome-console <b>ConsoleFont</b>
configuration command, all the suggestions he has made, and his
continuing suppport of Bacula users.
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Thanks to multiple other Bacula Packagers who make and release
packages for different platforms for Bacula.
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Thanks to Christopher Hull for developing the native Win32
Bacula emulation code and for contributing it to the Bacula 
project.
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Thanks to Nicolas Boichat for writing wx-console and the 
bacula-tray-monitor. These are very nice GUI additions to Bacula.
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Thanks to Nic Bellamy for providing the bacula-dir.conf file that
he uses to implement daily tape rotation using multiple Pools.
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Thanks to Johan Decock for providing numerous corrections to the
manual.
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Thanks to all the Bacula users, especially those of you who have 
contributed ideas, bug reports, patches, and new features.
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The original variable expansion code used in the LabelFormat comes
from the Open Source Software Project (www.ossp.org). It has been
adapted and extended for use in Bacula.
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For all those who I have left out, please send me a reminder, and
in any case, thanks for your contribution.

<h2>Copyrights and Trademarks</h2>
Certain words and/or products are Copyrighted or Trademarked such as
Windows (by Microsoft).  Since they are numerous, and we are not
necessarily aware of the details of each, we don't try to list them
here.  However, we acknowledge all such Copyrights and Trademarks, and
if any copyright or trademark holder wishes a specific acknowledgment,
notify us, and we will be happy to add it where appropriate.

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