Brian Fox (programmer)

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Brian Jhan Fox
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RelativesDonal Fox (brother)

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Brian Jhan Fox (born 1959) is an American computer programmer and free software advocate. He is the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989.[1] He continued as the primary maintainer of Bash until at least early 1993.[2][3] Fox also built the first interactive online banking software in the U.S. for Wells Fargo in 1995,[4] and he created an open source election system in 2008. Fox has co-founded several technology start-ups including Orchid Labs, a provider of anonymized internet marketplaces. [5]

Free Software Foundation

In 1985, Fox worked with Richard Stallman at Stallman's newly created Free Software Foundation (FSF).[6] At the FSF, Fox authored GNU Bash,[7] GNU Makeinfo, GNU Info, GNU Finger, GNU Echo[8] and the readline[9] and history libraries.

He was also the maintainer of GNU Emacs for a time, making many contributions to the software which was created and maintained for the GNU Project between 1986 and 1994.[4]

Open source election systems

In 2008, Fox collaborated with Alan Dechert and Brent Turner to create a completely open source election system. The system was coded together with Parker Abercrombie, and demonstrated at the LinuxWorld conference in Moscone Center in San Francisco, August 5–7, 2008.[10]

Fox is also a founding member of both the California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO)[11] and the National Association of Voting Officials (NAVO).[12] These not-for-profit organizations promote open source voting systems for use in public elections. Fox co-wrote a New York Times piece in 2015 with former CIA head R. James Woolsey advocating open source election systems as a means of securing US elections against interference from foreign actors.[13]

Other software

Fox also wrote AMACS, a cut-down implementation of Emacs for the Apple II.[14]

Relatives

He is the fourth-born in a family of six siblings: composer and musician Donal Fox, Thaddeus Fox, sister Ena Fox, Daniel Fox and sister Sara Fox-Ray. He is the son of physicist and educator Herbert Fox[15] and grandson of artist Daniel Fox, creator of the Monopoly Man.[16]

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brian Fox (forwarded by Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (June 7, 1989). "Bash is in beta release!". Newsgroup: gnu.announce. Usenet: 8906080235.AA01983@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."January 1993 GNU's Bulletin". Newsgroup: gnu.announce. April 20, 1993. Usenet: gnusenet930421bulletin@prep.ai.mit.edu. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Chet Ramey (October 31, 2010), Dates in your Computerworld interview, retrieved October 31, 2010
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Bash with Brian Fox: GNU Software and Entrepreneurship". engineering.UCSB.edu. Archived from the original on November 19, 2011.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Loizos, Connie (April 21, 2018). "Orchid Labs is in the process of raising $125 million for its surveillance-free layer atop the internet". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Brian Fox". Archived from the original on July 24, 2011.
  7. ^ The GNU Bash Reference Manual Script error: No such module "webarchive"., (HTML version Script error: No such module "webarchive".) by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, Template:ISBN
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."echo.c".
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Chet Ramey and Brian Fox. "The GNU Readline Page" (PDF). Docs.freebsd.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 31, 2003. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."OVC at LinuxWorld 2008". YouTube. Alan Dechert. August 23, 2008. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Board Members". California Association of Voting Officials. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Board Members". National Association of Voting Officials. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Woolsey, R. James; Fox, Brian J. (August 3, 2017). "To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AppleIIc emacs".
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Herbert Fox". Uml.edu. November 25, 2013. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  16. ^ Assoc. of Game and Puzzle Collectors Quarterly www.AGPC.ORG summer 2013 Vol.15 No. 2. Page 18. Meet Dan Fox-- The Artist Who Created "Mr. Monopoly" by Philip E.Orbanes

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