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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- Chief Operating Systems Platform Strategist, Sun Microsystems
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on July 23, 2013
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