“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.“