Brian Fox

Brian Fox is a free software programmer.

Fox was the original author, in 1987, of the GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash), an open-source Unix command line interface distributed by the Free Software Foundation. The current developer and maintainer is Chet Ramey of Case Western Reserve University.

Fox is also the author of:

• The GNU components makeinfo, info, finger, and readline
• The BuddyCast peer-to-peer streaming media protocol (with Mel Beckman and Denison Bollay)
• Meta-HTML

External links

• The GNU Bash Reference Manual, (HTML version) by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, ISBN 0954161777
• The GNU Readline Page, by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox
• The BuddyCast Protocol, by Mel Beckman, Denison Bollay, and Brian Fox.