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Brian Fox (programmer)
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<p>Brian Jhan Fox (born 1959) is an American <a href="/facts/Computer_programmer/WGTS1Jv9">computer programmer</a> and <a href="/facts/Free_software/IaoVtJXn">free software</a> advocate. He is the original author of the <a href="/facts/GNU/HlAKKBdt">GNU</a> <a href="/facts/Bash_(Unix_shell)/RrYLtEJT">Bash</a> <a href="/facts/Shell_(computing)/Sa67elS7">shell</a>, which he announced as a beta in June 1989. He continued as the primary maintainer of Bash until at least early 1993. Fox also built the first interactive <a href="/facts/Online_banking/lYdBsukr">online banking</a> software in the U.S. for <a href="/facts/Wells_Fargo/Yansa3rp">Wells Fargo</a> in 1995, and he created an <a href="/facts/Open_source/7X9rCdz4">open source</a> election system in 2008. </p>