Roberto Di Cosmo

Roberto Di Cosmo is an italian computer scientist and researcher, located in France.

He graduated from the "Scuola Normale Superiore de Pise" and owns a PhD from Pise's university, before becoming conference master at the École normale supérieure in Paris, then professor at the Paris 7 University.

Former of the French AFUL, the French association of Linux and Free Software users, he's known for his implication in the Open Source Software field.

He became famous after publicating a pamphlet against Microsoft in 1998 : "Piège dans le cyberespace" (Hijacking the world, the dark side of Microsoft).Co-written with the journalist Dominique Nora, this book is now freely available under Creative Commons licence BY-NC-ND.

One of his famous contributions to Linux is also the first « live » linux distribution (2000 to 2002) : demolinux, making possible to test Linux from a CD-Rom, without installing.

External Links

* [http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dicosmo/ Own Page]
* [http://www.dicosmo.org/HoldUp/index.html.en "Hijacking the world"] free under licence CC-BY-NC-ND. Printed: Calmann-Levy 1998, ISBN 2-7021-2923-4
* [http://demolinux.org/ Demolinux]