update the history of sudo

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@@ -11,15 +11,23 @@ with an enhanced sudoers format.  This version was bought by a
 consulting firm called "The Root Group" and released under the GNU
 public license.
 
-In 1996, Todd Miller, who had been maintaining sudo for several
-years in his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella
-of his consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting.  Courtesan remains
-committed to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as
-well as continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.  As of
-version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any of the original "Root
-Group" code and is available with a BSD-style license.  As there
-has been no public release of Sudo from the "Root Group" I've dropped
-the `CU' from the name.
+In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally withing CU-Boulder for
+some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
+1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems.  The
+"CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
+"The Root Group".
+
+In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
+his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his
+consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting.  Courtesan remains committed
+to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as
+continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.
+
+In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
+been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
+(the original authors now work elsewhere).  As of version 1.6, Sudo
+no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
+available with a BSD-style license.
 
 sudo, in its current form, is maintained by: