Bradley M. Kuhn
Executive Director, Free Software Foundation
Bradley M. Kuhn is a supporter of the Free Software Movement: a movement
that creates software that can be freely copied, shared, modified, and
redistributed, and that brought the popular GNU/Linux operating system
into existance. Mr. Kuhn writes, teaches about and documents Free
Software and advocates the importance of software freedom. He began
working with the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project as a
volunteer in the mid-1990s. In February 2001, he was hired full-time as
Vice President of the FSF, and was officially named Executive Director in
March 2002. When not putting in overtime for his official duties,
Mr. Kuhn contributes to GNU software as a volunteer by hacking on various
Free Software programs and Free Documentation.
Mr. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola
College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from University of
Cincinnati. Before working full-time for the FSF, he worked as a Free
Software consultant in the technology industry.