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	Alan Cox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alan Cox (born 1968) is a programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991).
		Alan is employed by Red Hat and lives in Swansea, Wales with his wife, Telsa Gwynne.
		Cox was the recipient of the Free Software Foundation's 2003 Award for the Advancement of Free Software at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Cox (422 words)

	Open Source Pioneers. Chapter 5: Alan Cox
		Alan Cox also proved to be a master maintainer of production versions of Linux kernels, the quality that permitted Red Hat to survive in a pretty difficult and competitive environment.
		Alan Cox (born 1968) was a very active Linux kernel developer, No.2 in the Linux world for the most important period of Linux history (1991-2002).
		Initially Alan Cox used to work on the networking and SMP aspects of Linux kernel as well as taking a major role in the "making things happen to occur" by maintaining a stable version of Linux kernel, the job for which Linus Torvalds proved to be not well suited.
	www.softpanorama.org /People/Cox/index.shtml (5288 words)

	Alan Cox on writing better software - Ping Wales \| Welsh technology news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cox was speaking at the launch of an advanced technical computing group for Wales, run by IT Wales, part of Swansea University's computer science department.
		Cox, a graduate of Swansea University, discussed a number of trends which are allowing developers to produce better quality software.
		For starters, Cox says, we need to accept that humans are fallible and that software engineers, no matter how well trained, will make large numbers of mistakes in their software - so we should start using the right tools to keep the error count as low as possible.
	www.pingwales.co.uk /2004/10/07/Cox-on-better-software.html (843 words)

	ITWALES.COM - Alan Cox, Kernel Hacker, Linux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alan Cox is one of the most influential IT innovators in the world.
		Alan: At the time the 386 based PC began to take off it was apparent that this was the better longer-term option for the society.
		Alan: When the prime minister is appearing at product launches by a company twice found by courts to be abusing a monopoly, and facing billions of dollars in lawsuits you have to ask questions.
	www.itwales.com /interviews/alancox.htm (2253 words)

	Interview: Alan Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alan Cox: Pretty generic on the whole - born (that bit is required anyway), school, chickenpox, German measles, mumps, lessons and somewhere down the line computers thanks to a couple of teachers interested in computing who gave up their own lunchtimes one evening a week to teach pupils who were interested.
		Alan Cox: I joined Red Hat properly Jan 1 2000, that was the point at which there was a Red Hat in Europe and we'd sorted all the paperwork out.
		Alan Cox: The UK already has certain anti-convention laws, and the EU is implementing a common set at the moment.
	kerneltrap.org /node/view/9 (3465 words)

	Alan Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alan is the author of much of the Linux networking protocol code and protocol stacks.
		Alan's current projects are the Linux/Mac68K port, and drivers for the IBM PC110 palmtop.
		Alan has a longstanding interest in computer security issues, but gave up co-operating with CERT when they failed to announce or do anything to further the fixing of a serious Solaris 2.5 security bug which is now 15 months old and still it seems unfixed.
	www.dascon.de /IN-BT97/CVs/cv_acox.html (178 words)

	Alan Cox attacks the European DMCA \| The Register
		Alan Cox has issued a wake up call to the Linux community amid concerns that the pending European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) could stymie open source development.
		Cox wants to see clear exceptions for open source developers and explained some of the negative effects of the EUCD during a well received presentation.
		Cox described the directive as a "land grab" by the entertainment industry - and he says it is badly thought out technically.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2002/04/30/alan_cox_attacks_the_european (597 words)

	The open-source programmer who means business \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Alan Cox is so well-regarded in the open-source software community that he can pull in a crowd of eager techies to discuss theoretical software stability on a Sunday afternoon, as he did at last year's FOSDEM conference in Brussels.
		Cox: The majority of it looks very sensible, such as letting copyright information be displayed in an "about" box, rather than relying on command line instructions (as is the case in GPL 2).
		Cox: I'm not sure where the balance of power is. There is a lot of evidence that it's on the music and computer industry's side.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9593_22-6034218.html (1864 words)

	Alan Cox Interviews
		Alan: Technically the software is still owned by the person who wrote it, but that is more of a credit thing √ which is important in the community.
		Alan: In some ways √ and the lack of London pricing means it is cheaper for an SME to get the staff (as well as a higher standard of living for the staff) than in the South East.
		Alan: Certainly people have forgotten that being happy is somewhat more important than owning all the best stocks and the other things that people sort of spend all their time running around trying to achieve.
	www.softpanorama.org /People/Cox/interviews.shtml (17839 words)

	Radio host Alan Cox's caustic, hip and raunchy barbs pull in listeners
		Cox's outrageous or inflammatory remarks mean that few listeners are lukewarm about him.
		Cox doesn't program the music, but he produces the breaks, calls and recorded segments, incorporating odd sound bites culled from movie soundtracks and other recordings.
		Cox did standup comedy during his college years but gave it up to focus on radio.
	www.post-gazette.com /tv/20020502alancox2.asp (1368 words)

	The ups and downs of life with Linus - ZDNet UK News
		Cox explained that he and Torvalds sometimes have different approaches to fixing a problem, due in part to their different responsibilities.
		Cox said that Torvalds does not always let people know when he has fixed a security bug in the kernel.
		Cox said he gives top priority to bugs that are reported soon after the release candidate is made available.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39189593,00.htm (707 words)

	Next Linux 2.4 Kernel: some tips by Alan Cox LG #57
		Alan Cox: Having seen Linux from its early days as a fun toy through to the latest figures on its usage the one thing I have learned is that predicting the future in computing is not very practical.
		Alan Cox: People send me stuff, I put it together and test it a lot, when I think a new 2.2 is ready I send it to Linus who then reviews the code to see if there are problems or changes he doesnt like.
		Alan Cox: I took over Linux 2.0 maintainance later in the 2.0 cycle, before that I was working on the networking code and a lot of general bug fixing.
	linuxgazette.net /issue57/correa.html (1041 words)

	Amazon.com: Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rain Forest: Books: Paul Alan Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cox chronicles his efforts, along with those of numerous others, to end destructive logging, gain endangered status for such unusual forest species as the flying fox, and raise money to provide schools that the timber harvest would have paid for.
		Cox complements his record of the harsh specifics involved in struggling to preserve native species and cultures with the exegetic delineation of subtly important moments in Samoan culture--the kava ceremony, for example--that have no analogue in Western society.
		Cox truly is a survivor and definitely fit to hold the chief title "Nafanua." I too learned the language and customs of the Samoan people and grew to love them as Dr. Cox has.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0716735636?v=glance (1661 words)

	The more accurate diary. Really. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alan's diary (the current one) which started all this and which he no longer updates.
		Alan promised that now he was not doing his thesis thing he would start keeping his diary again, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
		Alan declared himself busy so I vanished for the day courtesy of a lift to Llandeilo to watch the Sealed Knot recreate part of the English Civil War (in Wales, yes, English Civil War is a stupid term for it).
	zeniv.linux.org.uk /~telsa/Diary/diary.html (1356 words)

	LinuxPlanet - Interviews - Kernel Development, Desktops, and Scooby Doo: The Alan Cox Interview - A Connoisseur of ...
		Thursday, February 10, 2000 08:48:05 AM Alan Cox is a long-time Linux kernel hacker, Red Hat Software employee, and general all-around great guy.
		Here, Paul and Alan discuss important issues: how free software is making a difference in the world, what vendors are making a difference in the Linux world, why the commercialization of Linux may not make a difference in the larger scheme of things, and how Scrappy Doo didn't make a difference in the Scooby-Doo ethos.
		Alan: I have fun cooking [laugh]--it's not necessarily a good thing for the people who have to eat it.
	www.linuxplanet.com /linuxplanet/interviews/1492/1 (745 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- The Next 50 Years of Computer Security: An Interview with Alan Cox
		Author's note: Alan Cox needs little introduction--most will know him for his long-standing work on the Linux kernel (not to mention his appreciation and promulgation of the Welsh language among hackers).
		Cox is one of the keynote speakers at EuroOSCON this October, where he will talk about computer security.
		Alan Cox: It is beginning to improve, but at the moment computer security is rather basic and mostly reactive.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2005/09/12/alan-cox.html (703 words)

	An Interview with Alan Cox \| Linux Journal
		Alan Cox: I was hacking bits of ideas for my own OS and working on a MUD called AberMUD.
		Alan: Linux was a lot easier to set up in the early days; MCC Linux and then SLS made it really easy to install by the standards of the time.
		Alan: Initially, I was working on the networking code after Ross Biro stopped maintaining it, and Fred van Kempen basically dropped the mainstream code to rewrite it.
	www2.linuxjournal.com /article/5045 (1821 words)

	Alan Cox - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alan Cox is an archetypal nerd: he is a computer programmer, a roleplayer and a Communist who believes that patent and copyright laws are evil.
		He helped develop something called "Linux" and also set up one of the first MUDs.
		As if that wasn't nerdish enough, Alan maintains a weblog written entirely in Welsh.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php?title=Alan_Cox&redirect=no (98 words)

	ITWALES.COM - Catching up with Alan Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the open source community has had to bid a brief farewell to Alan Cox during his year-long academic sabbatical, residents and visitors to the University of Wales Swansea are routinely treated to the sight of his red fedora bobbing through the crowds.
		Cox is about a third of the way through the course, and though he says he's not entirely clear on what topic he'll base his thesis, he's fairly certain it will have some technical bearing.
		Cox's involvement is fairly limited - as an intermediate Welsh learner, his main task is to supply the Welsh language speakers with a steady stream of tea.
	www.itwales.com /cgi/showsite/showpage.cgi?998973 (2470 words)

	Alan Cox Is an Unprofessional Jerk
		Alan Cox, the chief maintainer of the Linux kernel series 2.2, put out kernel 2.2.20-pre11 with a changelog claiming that some of the fixes were "censored in accordance with the US DMCA".
		Cox has attempted to support his ridiculous and obviously politically-motivated censorship with the claim that his decision was based on legal advice (implying that he fears that documenting security-related kernel fixes places him at risk of being prosecuted under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions), but this seems highly unlikely to be true.
		Cox is abusing his position as a Linux kernel luminary in order to repeal a law he doesn't agree with, harming the already floundering Linux community in the process.
	www.adequacy.org /public/stories/2001.10.23.232417.34.html (6270 words)

	The open source techie who means business - ZDNet UK Insight
		Alan Cox is one of the most respected figures in the open source community but he is also no stranger to the machinations of big business and recently completed an MBA
		Alan Cox is so well thought of in the open source community that he can pull together a crowd of eager techies to discuss theoretical software stability on a Sunday afternoon — as he did at last year's FOSDEM conference in Brussels.
		Cox wrote much of the original networking subsystem in Linux over a decade ago and has contributed code towards and maintained various kernel releases.
	insight.zdnet.co.uk /software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39249940,00.htm (726 words)

	Alan Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alan Cox resides in New York City and is currently principal flute and soloist with the American Sinfonietta.
		Cox also is a member of the New York Chamber Symphony and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.
		Cox toured Europe perfoming the Quantz Flute Concerto as soloist with the American Sinfonietta.
	www.americansinfonietta.org /alan_cox.htm (233 words)

	Alan Cox hails 64-bit Linux - ZDNet UK News
		Cox, an employee of Linux vendor Red Hat, is now one of the chief developers on the Linux core -- or kernel -- and is largely responsible for coordinating and integrating the contributions of hundreds of developers around the world.
		A controversy arose recently over whether the job of applying "patches" was getting to be too big for one person, but Cox says he feels the solution that emerged, involving automating the kernel changes, is ultimately satisfactory.
		Communal debugging is central to open-source development, and Cox bridles at recent attempts to change the way bugs are reported to software vendors.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /software/developer/0,39020387,2106032,00.htm (1235 words)

	Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox: Please say no for software patents
		Alan Cox notes: "Currently, the companies are moving programming jobs offshore.
		EFFI is very pleased of the position taken by Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox.
		Alan Cox has been one of the major developers of Linux for a long time.
	www.effi.org /julkaisut/tiedotteet/pressrelease-2003-09-22.html (537 words)

	Rice Computer Science: Cox, Alan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alan Cox's research interests include parallel computing, operating systems for distributed and multiprocessor systems, and computer architecture.
		Today, TreadMarks serves Cox and his graduate students as the foundation for several research projects ranging from the design of garbage collection algorithms for distributed shared-memory to performance debugging tools.
		Cox has collaborated with A. Schaffer and others on the development of FASTLINK, a software package for performing genetic linkage analysis.
	www.cs.rice.edu /Database/alc.shtml (212 words)

	LWN: Alan Cox wins free software award
		A quick update from FOSDEM 2004 in Brussels: this year's FSF award for the advancement of free software was awarded to Alan Cox, seemingly as much for his support for GNOME as for his kernel work.
		Alan has been far more of a "free as in freedom" activist than Linus, which I'm sure makes the FSF happy with him, even though he's not the purist that RMS is. He's been particularly active in opposition the the DMCA, going so far as to refuse to visit US soil because of it.
		Because the RMS's and Alan Coxes of this world help to let the world know what Free Software is about, and AC in particular keeps Linux on that track, Linus can concentrate on the management and coordination issues.
	lwn.net /Articles/72393 (521 words)

	Alan Cox: What the future holds for Linux - ZDNet UK Insight
		Alan Cox is generally referred to in the open-source developer community as a "kernel hacker" -- someone whose programming responsibilities cover the Linux kernel, or core, itself.
		Cox makes use of the decentralised nature of the Internet to work from his home in Swansea, despite the fact that his employer Red Hat is based in the US; in fact, at the moment he prefers not to visit the States, because of concerns about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
		He spoke with ZDNet UK in Swansea in a wide-ranging interview touching on the latest challenges for Linux at the high- and low-end, the arrival of revolutionary 64-bit hardware and why it's hard to argue with the economics of open-source software.
	insight.zdnet.co.uk /software/linuxunix/0,39020472,2106081,00.htm (1894 words)

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