Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorfis a technologist, executive, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation. Behlendorf served as President of the Foundation for three years. Behlendorf has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 , Benetech since 2009 and the Electronic Frontier...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 March 1973
CountryUnited States of America
We've made a lot of claims about what we can do, now we issue a challenge to analysts to go and figure out a way to measure it.
What we were trying to do here is to find a consensus that this was a good direction to go in and that there weren't any fundamental problems, and I think we pretty much agreed on that.
I don't get a chance to code any more.
On the Apache server the core team duties are distributed among 20 or so people, but only six to eight are active at any point in time.
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.
Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.
I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.
The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.
So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.
One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.