Ian Jackson
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Ian W. Jackson is a long time free software author and Debian developer. Jackson wrote dpkg, SAUCE, userv and debbugs. He used to maintain the Linux FAQ. He runs chiark.greenend.org.uk, a popular server, home to PuTTY among other things.
Jackson has a PhD in Computer Science [1] from Cambridge University and he currently works for XenSource; he has in the past worked for Canonical Ltd. and nCipher Corporation.
He became Debian Project Leader in January 1998. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm) was released during this time. He is now chair of the Debian Technical Committee. Ian was vice-president and then president of Software in the Public Interest in 1998 and 1999; he remains on the Board of Directors.
Wichert Akkerman took his place as Debian Project Leader in 1999. Ian also passed the dpkg maintainership to him later on.
[edit] Quotes
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
—Ian Jackson[2].
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[edit] References
- ^ Who goes here ? Confidentiality of location through anonymity http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/thesis/
- ^ Re: first proposal for a new maintainer policy (1998-04-28). Retrieved on 2008-01-13.
| Preceded by Bruce Perens |
Debian Project Leader January 1998 – December 1998 |
Succeeded by Wichert Akkerman |
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