Jordan K. Hubbard is a long-time open source developer, authoring software like the Ardent Window Manager

Ardent Window Manager

In computing, the Ardent Window Manager was an early window manager for the X Window System. It was descended from uwm.awm was written by Jordan Hubbard for the Ardent Computer Corporation's TITAN line of workstations in 1988, which ran a version of X11R2...

 and various other open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 tools and libraries before finally co-founding the FreeBSD

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...

 project. He started the FreeBSD project in 1993 with Nate Williams and Rodney W. Grimes, also creating the FreeBSD Ports

FreeBSD Ports

The FreeBSD Ports collection is a package management system for the FreeBSD operating system, providing an easy and consistent way of installing software packages. As of October 2011, there are over 22,700 ports available in the collection...

 collection and package management system

Package management system

In software, a package management system, also called package manager, is a collection of software tools to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages for a computer's operating system in a consistent manner...

. In July 2001 Hubbard joined Apple Computer

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

in the role of manager of the BSD technology group. Since 2005, he has been "Director of UNIX Technology" at Apple. In October 2007, Hubbard was promoted to "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple.

External links

• My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem - ACM Risks Digest] - April 2, 1987
• History of FreeBSD project
• WorkingMac interview - August 16, 2001
• MacSlash interview - December 17, 2002
• OSNews interview - April 15, 2003
• Face to Face with Jordan Hubbard, BSDi - February 11, 2000
• Salon: Open-sourcing the Apple - Jordan initial reactions to the first time he used Mac OS X (November 17, 2000)