- Nikolai Bezroukov
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Nikolai Bezroukov is a Senior Internet Security Analyst at BASF Corporation, Professor of Computer Science at Farleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey, United States) and webmaster of Open Source Software University, a volunteer technical site for the United Nations Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) that helps with Internet connectivity and distributes Linux to developing countries.
He was the author of popular in the USSR software development environment Neat and compiler to the relational database language RYAOD. Editor Neated and formatter Neatxt, which were parts of Neat package, were popular tools for publishing Samizdat books on computers.
From 1989 to 1996 he was founder and editor in chief of Softpanorama bulletin, an influential Russian language e-zine. From 1996 he is the webmaster or Softpanorama.org, a site devoted to "slightly skeptical" materials for computer science education.
He created one of the first classification system for computer viruses, an influential Russian language book on the subject, Computer Virology(1991) and organized the first conference of anti-virus researchers for the region. The latter helped to gain popularity for Lozinski and Kasperski antiviruses. Both were presenters at the conference along with Vesselin Bontchev (Burgaria). His later VB97 conference review [1] became popular and is reproduced by multiple hacker and antivirus defence web sites.
From 1994 to 1996 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Pittsburg working of issues of anti-virus and UNIX security research.
He claims that he coined the term "Orthodox File Managers" in 1996 in the first e-book devoted to the subject that systematized the field and tried to refine the common features of major implementation of this class of file managers such as FAR, Total Commander and Midnight Commander.[2] It also defined the standard for OFM implementations that are periodically revised the by the author.
Since 1998 he became prominent, albeit controversial, critic of simplistic, quasireligious views on possibilities of open source and dangers of its commercialization. In 1999 he introduced highly controversial term "Vulgar Raymondism" and in 2005 coined the names of two philosophical schools to writing open source software: "Software Realism" and "Software idealism". In 1999 he published two influential papers devoted to analyses and critique of Eric Raymond's views on the development of open source software "[3] and [4] in which he argues against idealistic view on open source a panacea from all software ills. The first paper produced sharp response from Eric Raymond.[5]
In 2000 he published a third paper [6] in which he analyzed the essence of Stallman's software development model and provided a compehensive critique of GPL's foundations.
In 2005 he published the next of his series of papers devoted to the critical assessment of open source development in which he tried to analyze achievements and pitfalls of two similar operating system Linux and Solaris.[7]
He is also the author of popular biography of Donald Knuth [8]
References
- ^ Bezroukov "Overview of The Seventh International Virus Bulletin Conference (VB’97)" Accessed 6 September 2011.
- ^ Bezroukov, "Orthodox File Managers". Accessed 23 September 2010.
- ^ Bezroukov, Open source software development as a special type of academic research: Critique of vulgar Raymondism" Accessed 23 September 2010.
- ^ Bezroukov, A second look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar" Accessed 23 September 2010.
- ^ Bezroukov, "Response to Nikolai Bezroukov"
- ^ Bezroukov, Labyrinth of Software Freedom Accessed 23 September 2010.
- ^ Bezroukov, Solaris vs. Linux: Ecosystem-based Approach and Framework for the Comparison in Large Enterprise Environments Accessed 23 September 2010.
- ^ Bezroukov, Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science Accessed 23 September 2010.
External links
- Open Source Software Educational Society, Bezroukov's website
Categories:- Living people
- Fairleigh Dickinson University faculty
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