Nikolai Bezroukov is a Senior Internet Security Analyst at

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Corporation and was member of Computer Science at

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( New Jersey, United States). Also

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University, a volunteer technical site for the

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Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) that helps with

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and distributes Linux to

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Early career

Softpanorama

From 1989 to 1996 he was founder and editor-in-chief of Softpanorama bulletin, an influential Russian language e-zine. From 1996 he is the

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of Softpanorama.org, a site with the self-claimed mission-statement to offer ''"slightly skeptical"'' positions regarding computer science education,

system administration A system administrator, or sysadmin, or admin is a person who is responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, especially multi-user computers, such as servers. The system administrator seeks to en ...

and software development professions.

Contributions

He created a classification systems for

computer virus A computer virus is a type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code. If this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected" with a compu ...

es, an influential Russian language book on the subject - ''Computer Virology'' (1991) - and organized the first conference of anti-virus researchers for the region. His later Virus Bulletin Conference review became popular and is reproduced by multiple hacker and antivirus defence web sites. He claims to have coined the term "Orthodox

File Managers A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files include creating, opening (e.g. viewing, playing, editing or pr ...

" (OFM) in 1996 in the first e-book devoted to the subject that systematized the field and tried to define the common features of major implementations of this class of file managers: such as FAR,

Total Commander __NOTOC__ Total Commander (formerly Windows Commander) is a shareware orthodox file manager for Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile/Windows CE and Android, developed by Christian Ghisler. Originally coded using Delphi, latest Windows 64-bit ...

and

Midnight Commander GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994 as a clone of the then-popular Nort ...

Open source issues

Since 1998 he has been a critic of the possibilities of open source and the dangers of its commercialization. In 1999 he introduced the highly controversial term "Vulgar Raymondism" and in 2005 coined the names of two

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s on writing open source software: "Software Realism" and "Software Idealism". In 1999 he published two influential papers devoted to analyses and critique of Eric Raymond's views on the development of open source software: "Critique of vulgar Raymondism" and "A second look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar". These papers discuss the similarities between open source software development and

academic research Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...

. The first paper produced a sharp response from Eric Raymond. In 2000 he published a third paper, cited in academia, in which he analyzed the essence of Stallman's software development model and provided a comprehensive critique of GPL's foundations. In 2005 he published the next of his series of papers devoted to a critical assessment of open source development, in which he tried to analyze achievements and pitfalls of two similar operating systems: Linux and Solaris.Bezroukov
Solaris vs. Linux: Ecosystem-based Approach and Framework for the Comparison in Large Enterprise Environments
Accessed 23 September 2010.

References

External links

Bezroukov's website "Softpanorama"
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