Alan Cox
Alan Cox is a programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel. He maintained an old branch (2.2.x), and his own versions of the previous stable branch (2.4.x) (signified by an "ac" in the version, for example 2.4.3-ac1). He was commonly regarded as being the "second in command" after Linus Torvalds himself, although this has changed over time.He was one of the people involved in AberMUD.
Cox is employed by Red Hat and lives in Wales, United Kingdom.
He is an ardent supporter of programming freedom, and an outspoken opponent of software patents, the DMCA and the CBDTPA. He resigned from a subgroup of Usenix in protest, and said he would not visit the United States for fear of being imprisoned after the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov for DMCA violations.
Cox was the recipient of FSFs 2003 Award for the Advancement of Free Software at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels.
Alan Cox is also the name of a popular radio personality in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the radio station 105.9 WXDX-FM. He has been with the station since 1999 and is known for his controversial comedy routines. He also appears on the local television talk show "On Q".
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