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“Jon ‘maddog’ Hall is the Executive Director of Linux
International. Jon has been in the computer industry for over a
quarter century, 17 years of that with UNIX. He has been a software
engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager
and professional educator. Before accepting a job at VA Linux
Systems working full time for Linux International, Jon was employed
by Compaq Computer Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group
and Bell Laboratories. Before that he was Department Head of
Computer Science at Hartford State Technical College, where his
students lovingly (he hopes) gave him the nickname maddog. Maddog
as he prefers to be called,has an MS in Computer Science from RPI
(1977) and a BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University
(1973).”
“Miguel de Icaza is Helix Code’s CTO. Miguel is one of the
foremost luminaries in the world of open source software
development, having contributed heavily to the port of Linux to the
SPARC processor, the port of Linux to SGI workstations, the
development of software support for RAID1 and RAID5 under Linux,
and the creation of the Midnight Commander file manager. Miguel is
the founder and leader of the GNOME project, and sits on the board
of the Free Software Foundation.”
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