Scott Swedorski is the founder of

Tucows Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent busines ...

(The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software), a large

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

domain name A domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services and more. As ...

reseller, and

Internet service provider An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privat ...

History

Scott served in the military and then received an associate degree from

Mott Community College Mott Community College (officially Charles Stewart Mott Community College or abbreviated MCC) is a public community college in Flint, Michigan. It is named for politician, businessman, and philanthropist Charles Stewart Mott. Its district is ...

Flint Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and sta ...

. In 1993 he worked for the

Area Library Online Networ
(FALCON)
Swedorski felt there was a need for public access to Internet-related software. Working from home, he created a site to provide the public with free and easily downloaded software. In 2002, Swedorski received the lifetime achievement award from the

Shareware Industry Awards The Shareware Industry Awards were a series of awards issued annually by the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation during the Software Industry Conference. Origin of the Shareware Industry Award The Software Industry Conference website notes: "The S ...

Foundation (SIAF) for his work with shareware software authors.Shareware Industry Awards
, accessed April 16, 2007 Swedorski retired from Tucows in 2003 and launched a new software promotions company. He is also the Vice President of distribution and marketing at

CoffeeCup Software CoffeeCup Software is an American computer software development company based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States founded in Corpus Christi, TX in 1996. The name comes from the company's origins in an internet cafe owned by its founder. The comp ...

, where he helped co-found the Organization of Independent Software Vendors. Scott also runs FileLight.com, a large shareware download site.

References

External links

Tucows

Organization of Independent Software Vendors
1970 births Living people Tucows {{compu-bio-stub