Brian Fox
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Brian Fox is a free software programmer. He was the original author, in 1987, of the GNU Bash shell. Fox is also the author of:
- The GNU components makeinfo, info, finger, and readline
- The BuddyCast peer-to-peer streaming media protocol (with Mel Beckman and Denison Bollay)
- Meta-HTML
[edit] External links
Wikibooks has more about this subject:
- The GNU Bash Reference Manual, (HTML version) by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, ISBN 0-9541617-7-7
- The GNU Readline Page, by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox
- The BuddyCast Protocol, by Mel Beckman, Denison Bollay, and Brian Fox.
History: GNU Manifesto • GNU Project • Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU licenses: GNU General Public License (GPL) • GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) • GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
Software: GNU operating system • bash • GNU Compiler Collection • Emacs • GNU C Library • Coreutils • GNU build system • other GNU packages and programs
Speakers: Robert J. Chassell • Loïc Dachary • Ricardo Galli • Georg C. F. Greve • Federico Heinz • Bradley M. Kuhn • Eben Moglen • Richard Stallman • Len Tower