Talk:Bill Joy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Bill Joy article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

Contents 1 No Joy 2 Question 3 Unabomber 4 SunOS 5 An emacs user, no? 6 TCP/IP?

[edit] No Joy

How could it be that an article that has been here for four years is so sketchy and uninformative? And how could it possibly have no talk page discussion? Come on, let's get going and get some good biography going. Surely someone here knows Bill and can supply a better lifestory.....--69.10.102.49 11:14, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question

At one point, Bill Joy freaked out about the future of AI and technology. That went on, I think, for a couple years.

Then he joined a venture capital firm, and is investing in technologies.

Does anyone have any evidence or insight into what changed?

I don't think this is evidence he has changed his viewpoints. He was/is against some technologies, not all of them, SqueakBox 15:56, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

I think you'll find the answer to your question here, one of the external link articles, SqueakBox 18:02, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unabomber

I removed the reference to the Unabomber in the Fears section. The Wired article states clearly that Kurzweil was the catalyst for his fears. Kurzweil is the one who uses the Unabomber manifesto to illustrate his points. Mattgrommes 16:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SunOS

As I recall from Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet., he wrote or rewrote SunOS in a weekend.   Also, this article could use a picture, though few good pictures of him exist, not even including public domain pictures.   71.81.44.202 16:48, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

the full movie is viewable here as well: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Nerds+2.0.1 Family Guy Guy 15:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An emacs user, no?

I've heard from a few sources that he became a GNU Emacs user. Can someone confirm/deny? Gronky 00:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Answered in the following article: Ed (text editor)#Bill Joy, vi, and ed. What's wikipedia policy on this, should that subsection be repeated here in this article, or not? Seems too short to merely wikilink to, but repeating it here feels redundant... --Lemi4 05:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes. Thanks, SqueakBox 23:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TCP/IP?

Bill Joy is pretty amazing, but the article makes it sound like he invented TCP/IP. He didn't, did he? I don't see anything at Internet protocol suite about that. --Allen 05:27, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

No response; removed. --Allen 18:42, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

He didn't invent TCP/IP, but he was the first to program a working implementation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.85.44 (talk) 23:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)