Harlan has been working with Unix since the late 70s, and with open source starting probably in the early 80s. He put a lot of effort in to making sure the software he wrote and used was portable... At that time, to install NTP you got a tarball from UDel, unpacked it, read a bunch of instructions, edited the Makefile and a Config file, then built and installed the software...By the summer of 1996 the state of autoconf's testing was "good enough" that I asked Dave Mills if he'd like to see the NTP codebase converted to GNU Autoconf. He agreed, and I started working...Eventually something came up where I said "Dave, please do X because that requires root access." His response was "Here's the root password."...I kinda got "bitten by the bug" and swept up in the process. -- HarlanStenn - 17 Aug 2015
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