From f27879844663876a27c90a6cf73ed52e37ee71b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vortex <jp@drvortex.dev>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:48:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Removed citing from readme

The citing block was part of the monolithic BrowserFS. The current codebase has changed significantly.
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 readme.md | 40 +---------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 367f63af7..d321b0471 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -254,44 +254,6 @@ If you want to use an asynchronous backend, you must wrap it in an `AsyncMirror`
 
 Run unit tests with `npm test`.
 
-### Citing
-
-BrowserFS is a component of the [Doppio](http://doppiojvm.org/) and [Browsix](https://browsix.org/) research projects from the PLASMA lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. If you decide to use BrowserFS in a project that leads to a publication, please cite the academic papers on [Doppio](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2594291.2594293) and [Browsix](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3037727):
-
-> John Vilk and Emery D. Berger. Doppio: Breaking the Browser Language Barrier. In
-> _Proceedings of the 35th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation_
-> (2014), pp. 508–518.
-
-```bibtex
-@inproceedings{VilkDoppio,
-	author		= {John Vilk and
-							 Emery D. Berger},
-	title		 = {{Doppio: Breaking the Browser Language Barrier}},
-	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th {ACM} {SIGPLAN} Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation},
-	pages		 = {508--518},
-	year			= {2014},
-	url			 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2594291.2594293},
-	doi			 = {10.1145/2594291.2594293}
-}
-```
-
-> Bobby Powers, John Vilk, and Emery D. Berger. Browsix: Bridging the Gap Between Unix and the Browser. In _Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems_ (2017), pp. 253–266.
-
-```bibtex
-@inproceedings{PowersBrowsix,
-	author		= {Bobby Powers and
-							 John Vilk and
-							 Emery D. Berger},
-	title		 = {{Browsix: Bridging the Gap Between Unix and the Browser}},
-	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural
-							 Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems},
-	pages		 = {253--266},
-	year			= {2017},
-	url			 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3037697.3037727},
-	doi			 = {10.1145/3037697.3037727}
-}
-```
-
 ### License
 
-BrowserFS is licensed under the MIT License. See `LICENSE` for details.
+BrowserFS is licensed under the MIT License.