Awarded O'Reilly Open Source Award (2014).
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Patrick Volkerding
Patrick Volkerding is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. Volkerding is Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man".
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business · American software engineer (born 1966) · engineer · software developer · computer scientist · businessperson · programmer · founder · also Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi, Volkerding
Born 20 October 1966 · Q44808
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Volkerding received the O'Reilly Open Source Award
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2004· 1 entry
Volkerding announced via mailing list post that he was suffering from actinomycosis, a serious illness requiring multiple rounds of antibiotics and with an uncertain prognosis
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-10-20.
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