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CTO, Free Standards Group.
Ian Murdock is Chief Technology Officer of the Free Standards Group and
chair of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), the Linux platform interoperability
standard. Prior to joining the Free Standards Group, Ian was cofounder,
chairman, and chief strategist of Progeny, a leading provider of custom
Linux platform technology. A longtime Linux user, developer, and advocate,
Ian founded the Debian project in 1993. Today, Debian is one of the most
popular Linux distributions in the world, with millions of users worldwide.
Debian is also widely considered one of the most successful and influential
open source projects ever launched: More than 1,000 volunteers in all parts
of the world are currently involved in Debian development, and the founding
document of the open source movement itself was originally a Debian
position statement. Ian was also a founding director of Linux
International (1993-1995) and the Open Source Initiative (1998-2001)
as well as an central contributor to the original Linux File
System Standard, predecessor of Linux Standard Base (LSB).
Ian holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University.
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