Brian Fox (programmer)

Brian Jhan Fox
Fox in 2008
Born (1959-12-11) December 11, 1959 (age 64)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupations
Employer(s)Opus Logica, Inc.
Known forGNU Bash
RelativesDonal 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.

  1. ^ Brian Fox (forwarded by Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (June 7, 1989). "Bash is in beta release!". Newsgroup: gnu.announce. Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  2. ^ "January 1993 GNU's Bulletin". Newsgroup: gnu.announce. April 20, 1993. Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  3. ^ Chet Ramey (October 31, 2010), Dates in your Computerworld interview, retrieved October 31, 2010
  4. ^ "A Bash with Brian Fox: GNU Software and Entrepreneurship". engineering.UCSB.edu. Archived from the original on November 19, 2011.