Ian Murdock

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Who is Ian Murdock?

Ian Murdock is Chief OS Platform Strategist at Sun Microsystems and

chair of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), the Linux platform

interoperability standard. Prior to joining Sun, Ian was CTO of the

Linux Foundation (formed through the merger of OSDL and the Free

Standards Group, where he was CTO) and cofounder, chairman, and chief

strategist of Progeny, a Linux distribution vendor that builds custom

Linux platforms for companies building server appliances and other

Linux powered products. 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 (the Open Source Definition) was originally a Debian position

statement. Ian was also a founding director of Linux International

(1993-1995) and the Open Source Initiative (1998-2001). Ian holds a

B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

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on July 23, 2013

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