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Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of
Linux
International[1], a non-profit organization of
computer vendors who wish to support and promote Linux-based operating systems. The nickname
"maddog" was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he
was the Department Head of Computer Science. He now prefers to be
called by this name. According to Hall, his nickname "came from a
time when I had less control over my temper".
He has worked for Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment
Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and SGI. He is currently the CTO and ambassador of Koolu.[2]
It was during his time with Digital that he initially became
interested in Linux, and was instrumental in obtaining equipment
and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first
port, to Digital's Alpha
platform. It was also in this general timeframe that Hall, who
lives in New Hampshire, started the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users'
Group. Hall has UNIX as his New Hampshire vanity license
plate[3].
Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several
non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association. He is a well known elder
statesman of the programming community, and a respected figure in
the free software movement. At the
UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, Hall was honoured with a
Lifetime Recognition Award for his services to the open source
community. Hall holds a Master of Science in Computer Science
from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (1977) and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and
Engineering from Drexel University (1973).
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