Jon Hall (programmer)

Jon " Maddog " Hall ( born August 7, 1950) is one of the founders of the international open - source initiative.

He is since 1969 in the computer industry and uses, according to his official biography since 1977 Unix and Linux since 1994. Since 1995 he has been chief of Linux International, a US-based non-profit organization for promoting Linux.

He studied at Drexel University and later at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy (New York). After his studies he worked at Aetna Life and Casualty in IBM mainframes. Then he became dean of the computer science faculty of the Hartford State Technical College, where his students started him mad dog ( German: mad dog ) should be mentioned. Later he became a system administrator at Bell Laboratories to work then sixteen years at DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation), during which time he also met Linus Torvalds and supported this at the port of Linux to the 64 -bit Alpha processor.