Brian Fox
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Brian Fox is a free software programmer.
Fox was the original author, in 1987, of the GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash), an open-source Unix command line interface distributed by the Free Software Foundation. The current developer and maintainer is Chet Ramey of Case Western Reserve University.
Fox is also the author of:
- The GNU components makeinfo, info, finger, and readline
- The BuddyCast peer-to-peer streaming media protocol (with Mel Beckman and Denison Bollay)
- Meta-HTML
[edit] External links
- The GNU Bash Reference Manual, (HTML version) by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, ISBN 0-9541617-7-7
- The GNU Readline Page, by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox
- The BuddyCast Protocol, by Mel Beckman, Denison Bollay, and Brian Fox.
History: GNU Manifesto • GNU Project • Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU licenses: GNU General Public License (GPL) • GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) • GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
Software: GNU operating system • bash • GNU Compiler Collection • GNU Emacs • Ghostscript • other GNU packages and programs
Advocates and activists: Richard Stallman (RMS) • Robert J. Chassell • Prof. Masayuki Ida • Geoffery Knauth • Lawrence Lessig • Eben Moglen • Henri Poole • Peter Salus • Gerald Sussman • FSF's Past Directors • other FSF's Staff and Employees
Software developers: Richard Stallman (RMS) • Jim Blandy • Michael (now Thomas) Bushnell • Ulrich Drepper • Brian Fox • Tom Lord • Roland McGrath • other FSF's Programmers
Software documentors: Richard Stallman (RMS) • Robert J. Chassell • Roland McGrath • other FSF's Documentors
