- Russ Nelson
infobox person
occupation =Software developer
predecessor =Eric S. Raymond
successor =Michael Tiemann
title = President ofOpen Source Initiative
term = February 2005
known_for = Founding member and ex-president ofOpen Source Initiative
website = http://russnelson.com/
party = Libertarian PartyRuss Nelson (born 1958) is an American
computer programmer . He is a founding board member of theOpen Source Initiative . cite web | url = http://opensource.org/history | title = History of the OSI | accessdate = 2008-08-22 | last = Tiemann | first = Michael | authorlink = Michael Tiemann | date = 2006-09-19 | format = html | publisher = Opensource.org ]In February 2005, he briefly became the president of the Open Source Initiative.cite web | title = Open-source leader steps aside at industry group | last = LaMonica | first = Martin | date =
2005-02-01 | url = http://news.cnt.com/Open-source leader steps aside at industry group/2100-7344_3-5558688.html | accessdate = 2008-08-23 ] He resigned on23 February 2005 because a posting on his personalblog was thought by some to be racist.cite web | url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/Racism-row-forces-open-source-head-out/2005/03/09/1110316060643.html | title = Racism row forces open source head out | first = Sam | last = Varghese | date =2005-03-09 | format = html | accessdate = 2008-07-11 | publisher =The Age ] . The article, entitled "Blacks Are Lazy", [cite web| url = http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/blacks-are-lazy.html | title = Blacks are "not" lazy| first = Russ | last = Nelson | date = 2005-02-28 | publisher = Russ Nelson's personal blog | format = html | accessdate = 2008-07-11 | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20050308034834/http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/.removed/blacks-are-lazy.html | archivedate = 2005-03-08 ] was renamed to "Blacks Are Lazy?" and revised. [ [http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/blacks-are-lazy.html "Blacks are lazy?" blog posting] ]Nelson is the original developer of
Freemacs , a variant ofEmacs used byFreeDOS .cite web | url = http://www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=lsm&lsm=edit/emacs.lsm | title = EMACS | work = FreeDOS - Software List | publisher = freedos.org ] , and "Painter's Apprentice", which he describes as aMacPaint clone [cite web|url=http://code.google.com/p/painters-apprentice/|title=painters-apprentice - MS-DOS paint program|last=Nelson|first=Russ|publisher=Google_Code|format=html] .He is a pacifist
Quaker [cite web | url = http://ottawa.quaker.ca/content/quaker.org | title = quaker.org | publisher = Ottawa Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) | accessdate = 2008-09-01] and a member of the Libertarian Party of the United States. cite book | title = Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution | isbn = 0596008023 | pages = 445 | author = DiBona, Chris; Cooper, Danese; Stone, Mark | publisher = O'Reilly | year = 2005 ]References
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