Editing Eric Allman (section)

==Personal life==
Allman, who is gay, lives in [[Berkeley, California]], with [[Marshall Kirk McKusick]], who had been his partner for more than 30 years before they got married in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web|last1=McKusick|first1=Kirk|title=Kirk McKusick's Family and Friends|url=http://www.mckusick.com/~mckusick/index.html|website=mckusick.com|publisher=Marshall Kirk McKusick|access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref>  The two first met in graduate school. McKusick is a lead developer of BSD.<ref>{{cite journal|title=What a connection - gay couple's contributions to information technology - Special Cyber Report|last=Friess|first=Steve|journal=The Advocate|date=3 March 1998|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n754/ai_20350568|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216184527/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n754/ai_20350568|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 December 2004|access-date=2007-09-24|id= [https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3AFriess+intitle%3AWhat+a+connection+-+gay+couple%27s+contributions+to+information+technology+-+Special+Cyber+Report&as_publication=The+Advocate&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=Search Scholar search] }}</ref>

{{quote|There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.<ref>''The Advocate'', 3 March 1998, p. 41.</ref>|Eric Allman}}