Rich Salz

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Rich Salz is currently Chief Security Officer of Datapower,^{[citation needed]} which was recently acquired by IBM.^{[citation needed]}

He has made numerous contributions to recent work on XML^{[citation needed]} and SOAP specifications^{[citation needed]}, particularly involving security.

For many years, he spelled his name 'Rich $alz' and was an early contributor to the free software movement. In 1986 he replaced John P. Nelson as editor of the original "moderated" Usenet group for free source code, mod.sources (later renamed to comp.sources.unix).^{[citation needed]} This newsgroup was a primary distribution medium for high quality free software before Internet access became available to the public. Rich posted early releases of patch, localtime, perl, cvs, elm, and the first free tar program. He passed the job of editor to Paul Vixie in 1991.^{[citation needed]} He also wrote free software, including a re-write of AberMUD^{[citation needed]} and the original release of the well-respected and still-used INN,^{[citation needed]} which became the de-facto software for running Usenet news servers, for a few years.^{[citation needed]}