Rich Salz

Rich Salz is currently Chief Security Officer of [http://www.datapower.com Datapower] ,Fact|date=February 2007 which was recently acquired by IBM.Fact|date=February 2007

He has made numerous contributions to recent work on XMLFact|date=February 2007 and SOAP specificationsFact|date=February 2007, particularly involving security.

For many years, he spelled his name 'Rich $alz' and was an early contributor to the free software movement. In 1986 he replaced John P. Nelson as editor of the original "moderated" Usenet group for free source code, mod.sources (later renamed to comp.sources.unix).Fact|date=February 2007 This newsgroup was a primary distribution medium for high quality free software before Internet access became available to the public. Rich posted early releases of patch, localtime, perl, cvs, elm, and the first free tar program.He passed the job of editor to Paul Vixie in 1991.Fact|date=February 2007 He also wrote free software, including a re-write of AberMUDFact|date=February 2007 and the original release of the well-respected and still-used INN,Fact|date=February 2007 which became the de-facto software for running Usenet news servers, for a few years.Fact|date=February 2007

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