Russ Nelson | |
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Board of Directors, Open Source Initiative | |
In office February 1998 [1] –April 6, 2011 [2] | |
Succeeded by | Jim Jagielski [2] |
President,Open Source Initiative | |
In office January 31,2005 [3] –February 23,2005 [4] [5] | |
Preceded by | Eric S. Raymond [6] |
Succeeded by | Michael Tiemann [4] |
Personal details | |
Born | [7] | March 21,1958
Political party | Libertarian Party [8] |
Occupation | Software developer |
Known for | Board member and former president of Open Source Initiative [9] |
Website | http://russnelson.com/ |
Russell Nelson (born March 21,1958) is an American computer programmer. He was a founding board member of the Open Source Initiative and briefly served as its president in 2005. [10]
Nelson wrote code for some programs:In 1983,he co-wrote a MacPaint clone,Painter's Apprentice,with Patrick Naughton. [11] Nelson was the author of Freemacs (a variant of Emacs used by FreeDOS). [12] While attending university,Nelson began developing the collection of drivers later commercially released as the "Crynwr Collection". [13] In 1991,Nelson founded Crynwr Software,a company located in Potsdam,New York, [14] supporting deployment of large-scale e-mail systems,development of packet drivers,Linux kernel drivers, [15] and reverse engineering of embedded systems. [16]
In 1998,Nelson became one of the six first members to serve on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative (holding 11 members by 2016). [9] [17] In February 2005,he became the president of the Open Source Initiative,but resigned a few days later (remaining on the board),on February 23,2005,after publishing a controversial posting [18] on his personal blog titled "Blacks are Lazy?". [19] [6] [4] [20] Nelson apologized to those who perceived the post (which he withdrew because it "was not well written" [21] ) as racist,and indicated that he did not believe himself to be politically savvy enough for the role of president. [4] Nelson remained on the board for another six years. [22] [ non-primary source needed ]
In July 2010,Nelson worked on monitors to measure water quality. [23]
Nelson is the son of Russell Edward Nelson and Gladys Jacobsen Nelson. [24] He used to be a Quaker, [25] He has since disavowed the religion for political reasons. [26] Nelson is a pacifist,and a member of the Libertarian Party of the United States. [8]
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Libertarian.
Black people are lazy in that they work less hard than whites
It was not well written and I have withdrawn it. I apologize to anybody who thought that the posting itself was racist.