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Keith Packard | |
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| Born | April 16, 1963 |
| Education | BA in mathematics |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Employer | Amazon |
| Known for | Programming |
| Board member of | X.Org Foundation |
| Website | keithp |
Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System.
Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X. He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s as a member of the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and the X.Org Foundation.
In 2011, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Packard, as "the person behind most of the improvements made on the open source desktop in the last ten years at least."[1] He is portrayed as one of the Faces of Open Source.[2]
- ^ "O'Reilly Open Source Awards: O'Reilly Open Source Convention: OSCON, July 25 - 29, 2011 in Portland, OR". www.oscon.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
- ^ "Faces of Open Source: Keith Packard". Retrieved 2018-08-29.