Bo Arne Leuf (July 9, 1952[1] – April 24, 2009)[2] was co-author of the book The Wiki Way (2001), written in collaboration with wiki inventor Ward Cunningham. His book Peer To Peer (2002) discusses different peer-to-peer (P2P) solutions both from a technical and legal point of view.
Bo Leuf lived in Gothenburg, Sweden.[3] He was a candidate for the Pirate Party in the Swedish general election in 2006[4] and was also on its board as treasurer.[5]
In 1971, he came from Västernorrland to Gothenburg to study engineering physics at Chalmers University.
In 1979, he opened a book shop called Wizard in Gothenburg.[6] Later, when he moved to Malmö in 1992, he opened a new shop, this time under the name of Daggshimmer. At this time in Malmö, he also helped his wife and mother-in-law to run the Demaret's School of Languages, a former Berlitz language school still using the same teaching method. He got married on June 2, 1984 and had two children. He died of cancer on April 24, 2009.[7]
- ^ Vilka är vi? (in Swedish) (Piratpartiet forum, retrieved 2007-02-19)
- ^ Posted by his son, Edward Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) (Atari Talk Forums, retrieved 2009-05-25)
- ^ Www Bio (leuf.com, retrieved 2007-02-19)
- ^ 11. Bo Leuf, 56, Göteborg Archived October 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) (Piratpartiet, retrieved 2007-02-19)
- ^ Styrelse Archived 2007-02-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) (Piratpartiet, retrieved 2007-02-19)
- ^ "Balder: Wizard - Butiken som var". Archived from the original on 2014-04-20. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ "Bo Leuf, R.I.P." Zhurnaly. 2009-05-28. Archived from the original on 2022-10-30. Retrieved 19 Jun 2023.