Brian Fox

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Brian Fox
Brian J. Fox, Santa Barbara, CA 2008
Born	December 11, 1959 (1959-12-11) (age 49) Boston, Massachusetts
Residence	Santa Barbara, CA
Nationality	American
Other names	bfox
Occupation	Technologist, author
Employer	The Okori Group
Website http://www.theokorigroup.com/

Brian J. Fox (born 1959) is a computer programmer, author, and open source advocate. In 1987, he authored the GNU Bash shell, a common Unix operating system interface. Fox maintained Bash until 1990.

[edit] Free Software Foundation (FSF)

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, and the readline and history libraries^{[citation needed]}.

He was also the maintainer of Emacs for a time, and made many contributions to the software that was created for the GNU Project between 1986 and 1994^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Other works

Fox is also the author of:

• Wells Fargo Online Banking, 1995^{[citation needed]}
• The BuddyCast peer-to-peer streaming media protocol (with Mel Beckman and Denison Bollay)^{[citation needed]}
• Meta-HTML^{[citation needed]}
• The Apple //e version of the Terrapin Logo Language^{[citation needed]}
• The version of the Emacs text editor for the Apple ][ family of computers called Amacs^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

Wikibooks' [[wikibooks:|]] has more about this subject:

Bourne Shell Scripting

• The GNU Bash Reference Manual, (HTML version) by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, ISBN 0-9541617-7-7
• The GNU Readline Page, by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox
• The BuddyCast Protocol, by Mel Beckman, Denison Bollay, and Brian Fox

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