Brian Jhan Fox | |
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | December 11, 1959
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Employer(s) | Opus Logica, Inc. |
Known for | GNU Bash |
Relatives | Donal Fox (brother) |
Brian Jhan Fox (born 1959) is an American computer programmer and free software advocate. He is the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989.[1] He continued as the primary maintainer of bash until at least early 1993.[2][3] Fox also built the first interactive online banking software in the U.S. for Wells Fargo in 1995,[4] and he created an open source election system in 2008.