Kurt von Finck
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John Kurt von Finck II, (born June 3, 1965 in Princeton, NJ, USA), is a longtime proponent of Unix, Unix derivatives, and open source software.
von Finck began using computers in the late 1970s at the Doane Stuart School and Northfield Mount Hermon where he began programming rudimentary code for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series of minicomputers.
He began his college education in 1991 and in 1995 presented the paper The Dispensation Of The Property of the Knights Templar in England and Ireland, a statistical analysis based on primary and secondary sources, and received his BA in Medieval Studies from The Catholic University of America.
He was lead technical support technician for BeOS at Gobe Software after Be, Incorporated outsourced publishing of their OS. After the demise of BeOS he was recruited as site manager for TechTracker's family of websites (VersionTracker, MacFixIt, and the MacFixIt Forums). More recently he worked in the systems administration team for the GNOME Foundation.
He is employed by Canonical Ltd as Senior Ubuntu Systems Support Analyst and currently resides in Montreal, Quebec Canada.
