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Brian Fox (programmer) was born on 11 December, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American computer programmer. Discover Brian Fox (programmer)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Occupation Computer programmer · technologist · author
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 11 December, 1959
Birthday 11 December
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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1959

Brian Jhan Fox (born 1959) is an American computer programmer and free software advocate.

1985

In 1985, Fox worked with Richard Stallman at Stallman's newly created Free Software Foundation.

At the FSF, Fox authored GNU Bash, GNU Makeinfo, GNU Info, GNU Finger, GNU Echo and the readline and history libraries.

1986

He was also the maintainer of GNU Emacs for a time, making many contributions to the software which was created and maintained for the GNU Project between 1986 and 1994.

1989

He is the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989.

1993

He continued as the primary maintainer of bash until at least early 1993.

1995

Fox also built the first interactive online banking software in the U.S. for Wells Fargo in 1995, and he created an open source election system in 2008.

2008

In 2008, Fox collaborated with Alan Dechert and Brent Turner to create a completely open source election system.

The system was coded together with Parker Abercrombie, and demonstrated at the LinuxWorld conference in Moscone Center in San Francisco, August 5–7, 2008.

Fox also is a founding member of both the California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO) and the National Association of Voting Officials (NAVO).

These not-for-profit organizations promote open source voting systems for use in public elections.

2015

Fox co-wrote a New York Times piece in 2015 with former CIA head R. James Woolsey advocating open source election systems as a means of securing US elections against interference from foreign actors.

Fox also wrote AMACS, a cut-down implementation of Emacs for the Apple II series.

He is the fourth born in a family of six siblings, composer and musician Donal Fox, Thaddeus Fox, sister Ena Fox, Daniel Fox and sister Sara Fox-Ray.

He is the son of physicist and educator Herbert Fox and grandson of artist Daniel Fox, creator of the Monopoly Man.

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