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| Occupation | Software developer |
| Known for | Founding member and ex-president of Open Source Initiative |
| Title | President of Open Source Initiative |
| Term | February 2005 |
| Predecessor | Eric S. Raymond |
| Successor | Michael Tiemann |
| Political party | Libertarian Party |
| Website | http://russnelson.com/ |
Russ Nelson is an American computer programmer. He is a founding board member of the Open Source Initiative.
In February 2005, he briefly became the president of the Open Source Initiative. He resigned on February 23, 2005 because a posting on his personal blog was thought by some to be racist.. The article, entitled "Blacks Are Lazy", was renamed to "Blacks Are Lazy?" and revised.
Back in the eights, Nelson was the original developer of Freemacs (a variant of Emacs used by FreeDOS) and Painter's Apprentice, which he describes as a MacPaint clone.
He is a pacifist Quaker and a member of the Libertarian Party of the United States.
References
- ^ Tiemann, Michael (2006-09-19). "History of the OSI" (html). Opensource.org. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ LaMonica, Martin (2005-02-01). "Open-source leader steps aside at industry group". CNET News. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
- ^ Varghese, Sam (2005-03-09). "Racism row forces open source head out". The Age. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- ^ DiBona, Chris; Cooper, Danese; Stone, Mark (2005). Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution. O'Reilly. p. 445. ISBN 0596008023.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Nelson, Russ (2005-02-28). "Blacks are not lazy". Russ Nelson's personal blog. Archived from the original on 2005-03-08. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- Nelson, Russ (2005-05-10). "Blacks are lazy?". Self-published on Nelson's own blog. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
- "EMACS". FreeDOS - Software List. freedos.org.
- Nelson, Russ. "painters-apprentice - MS-DOS paint program". Google_Code.
- openconcept (2005-12-12). "quaker.org". Ottawa Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Retrieved 2008-09-01.
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