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@@ -60,60 +60,44 @@ Theoretical Astrophysics group) to work for Cygnus (now a part of Red Hat)
 
writing software and books for eCos,although he continued working on the
 
HETE-2 satellite (an astrophysical Gamma Ray Burst mission) part
 
time. Mark earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the
 
Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. </p>
 

	
 
<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a
 
volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular
 
GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free
 
Software projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
 
and software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies,
 
and numerous small companies.  He also spent one year teaching Advanced
 
Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High
 
School in Cincinnati.  In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software
 
Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001
 
until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center
 
(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director from
 
2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive
 
Director.  Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from
 
Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the
 
University of Cincinnati.  His Master's thesis discussed methods for
 
dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Axel Metzger</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Axel is a professor of law at the Institute of Legal Informatics of the
 
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany. Prior to this
 
post, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for
 
Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Axel graduated from
 
the University of Hamburg and received the First and the Second State
 
Examination at the Hamburg Court of Appeals. He holds a PhD from the
 
Universities of Munich and Paris II (Panth&eacute;on-Assas) and an
 
LL.M. from Harvard. He has published several books and law review articles
 
on the legal aspects of free software and European copyright and contract
 
law in general. He is a founding member of
 
the <a href="http://ifross.org">German Institute for Legal Aspects of Free
 
and Open Source Software</a>.
 
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<h2>Ian Lance Taylor</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990.  He wrote
 
the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide
 
range of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and
 
binary utilities.  He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions,
 
Zembu Labs, Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does
 
GNU compiler and tools development at Google.  He received a B.S. in
 
Computer Science from Yale University.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Tom Tromey</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Tom Tromey started working on free software in 1991.
 
He was the primary author of GNU Automake, and has also
 
worked on a wide range of other free software projects.
 
He is currently a maintainer of GNU gcj and works at
 
Red Hat.  He received a B.S. in mathematics from the
 
California Institute of Technology.</p>
 

	
 
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