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Linux-Watch: Debian Founder Takes Over LSB Leadership

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Feb 3, 2006

[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]

“The Free Standards Group (FSG), the non-profit group behind the
Linux Standard Base (LSB), has announced that Debian Linux founder
Ian Murdock will be its new CTO (chief technology officer) and will
chair the LSB workgroup.

“A spokesperson for the FSG said that as co-founder of Debian
Linux and the commercial custom Linux distributor Progeny, Murdock
brings unmatched experience building open source communities,
driving technical consensus, and solving Linux distribution
challenges. Murdock has also been one of the leaders of the DCC
Alliance…”

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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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