LinuxPR: MandrakeSoft names Jean-Loup Gailly as CTO.

"MandrakeSoft is very proud to announce the arrival of Jean-Loup Gailly who was named as Chief Technical Officer. Jean-Loup has been a long time contributor of free software. He is the author of the compression utility Gzip and co-author of the compression library Zlib.

"In the past, Jean-Loup Gailly has also been a member of the team who specified the Ada programming language designed for highly reliable software systems."

"Jean-Loup will be responsible for the production of the Linux-Mandrake distribution and will manage the dozens of MandrakeSoft programmers and the hundreds of contributors who work on Mandrake."

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