Thomas Bushnell, BSG

Brotherhood of Saint Gregory

The Brotherhood of Saint Gregory is a community of friars within the Anglican communion. Its members, known as Gregorians, include clergy and laymen....

, formerly known as Michael Bushnell, is a software developer and Gregorian friar

Brotherhood of Saint Gregory

The Brotherhood of Saint Gregory is a community of friars within the Anglican communion. Its members, known as Gregorians, include clergy and laymen....

. He was the founder and principal architect of GNU's official kernel project, GNU Hurd

GNU Hurd

GNU Hurd is a free software Unix-like replacement for the Unix kernel, released under the GNU General Public License. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation...

, from its instigation until November 2003, when he posted to the GNU project's discussion mailing list saying that he had been dismissed by Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

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 for criticizing the GNU Free Documentation Licence.

Thomas remains active in free software, and maintains several Debian

Debian

Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...

packages.

External links

• Home page
• 'Towards a New Strategy of OS Design', an architectural overview of the HURD, by Thomas Bushnell, BSG