Thomas Bushnell

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Full Name	Thomas Bushnell
Occupation	Software Developer
Date Of Birth	Dec 13, 1967(1967-12-13)
Age	57
Birthplace	United States
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Thomas Bushnell Biography

Thomas Bushnell is one of the most popular and richest Software Developer who was born on December 13, 1967 in United States, United States. Thomas Bushnell, BSG, formerly known as Michael Bushnell (born December 13, 1967), is a software developer and Gregorian friar. He was the founder and principal architect of GNU’s official kernel project, GNU Hurd. Bushnell was Hurd’s official maintainer from its instigation until November

2003. Bushnell currently maintains Debian packages, and is employed by Google LLC since July 2010. He is a member of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Glendale, CA.

Bushnell was Hurd’s official maintainer from its instigation until November 2003, when he posted to the GNU project’s discussion mailing list saying that he had been dismissed by Stallman for criticizing the GNU Free Documentation License. Stallman said the dismissal was because Bushnell had been inactive since 2001 and wasn’t responding to mail.

Thomas Bushnell Net Worth

Thomas Bushnell is one of the richest Software Developer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Bushnell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The GNU Hurd kernel was launched in 1990 and Bushnell was the lead developer. This kernel was to be one of the last free software components needed to complete the GNU operating system. The project was experiencing delays however for various reasons, one of them being that Bushnell “several times redesigned and rewrote large parts of the code based on what he had learned, rather than trying to make the Hurd run as soon as possible”, according to Richard Stallman. Stallman stated that “it was good design practice, but it wasn’t the right practice for our goal: to get something working ASAP”.

In 1999 Bushnell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Boston with Bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and classics. In 2007 he completed his PhD at the University of California, Irvine under supervisor Professor Bonnie Kent, with his dissertation titled Peter Abelard’s Conception of the Good.

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Alexandra Ranked on the list of most popular Software Developer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Thomas Bushnell celebrates birthday on December 13 of every year.

Top Facts about Thomas Bushnell

1. Thomas Bushnell is an American software programmer.
2. He worked at Google and was a Debian Project Leader.
3. Bushnell has a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
4. He co-authored the book “The Linux Programming Interface”.
5. Bushnell is known for his contributions to open-source software.
6. He was involved in the development of GNOME and Debian GNU/Linux.
7. Bushnell has given talks on various topics related to computer science.
8. He has been recognized for his work with awards such as the Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
9. Bushnell currently works as a Senior Staff Engineer at Google Cloud Platform.
10. He continues to be active in the open-source community, contributing to projects like Kubernetes and Docker.