Brian Fox (computer programmer)

Brian J. Fox (born 1959) is a computer programmer, entrepreneur,^[1] consultant, author, and free software advocate. He was the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989.^[2] He continued as the primary maintainer for bash until at least early 1993.^[3][4]

Free Software Foundation (FSF)

In 1985 Fox worked with Richard Stallman at Stallman's newly created Free Software Foundation.^[5] At the FSF, Fox authored GNU Bash,^[6] GNU Makeinfo, GNU Info, GNU Finger, and the readline ^[7] and history libraries.

He was also the maintainer of Emacs for a time, and made many contributions to the software that was created for the GNU Project between 1986 and 1994 .

References/External Links

1. ^ "Virtual World Computing". Virtual World Computing (VWC). http://vworldc.com/management. Retrieved 2011-09-11. 
2. ^ Brian Fox (forwarded by Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (June 7, 1989). "Bash is in beta release!". gnu.announce. (Web link). Retrieved Oct 28 2010. 
3. ^ len (g...@prep.ai.mit.edu) (April 20, 1993). "January 1993 GNU's Bulletin". gnu.announce. (Web link). Retrieved Oct 28 2010. 
4. ^ Chet Ramey (Oct 31 2010), Dates in your Computerworld interview, http://www.scribd.com/doc/40556434/2010-10-31-Chet-Ramey-Early-Bash-Dates, retrieved Oct 31 2010 
5. ^ http://www.plaxo.com/directory/profile/64426373020/9da0f414/Brian/Fox
6. ^ The GNU Bash Reference Manual, (HTML version) by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, ISBN 0-9541617-7-7
7. ^ The GNU Readline Page, by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox

• The BuddyCast Protocol, by Mel Beckman, Denison Bollay, and Brian Fox