Tony Guntharp (born May 16, 1969) was the team project manager and one of the four co-founders of
SourceForge
SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirrorin ...
(along with
Uriah Welcome,
Tim Perdue and
Drew Streib) which launched in November 1999. Prior to this he had co-founded Fresher Information Corp., an object oriented database management software firm.
He eventually left
VA Software
Geeknet, Inc. is a Fairfax County, Virginia–based company that is a subsidiary of GameStop. The company was formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, and SourceForge, Inc.
History VA Research
VA Research was founded in No ...
(the owners of the SF property) after
VA Software
Geeknet, Inc. is a Fairfax County, Virginia–based company that is a subsidiary of GameStop. The company was formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, and SourceForge, Inc.
History VA Research
VA Research was founded in No ...
shut down the systems-hardware business.
He also co-authored ''
Practical Linux''.
Practical Linux
From QUE Publishing.
Damage Studios
Later, he founde
Damage Studios
with several former VA employees, including Greg Kucharo, Steve Westmoreland, Joseph Arruda, San Mehat, Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) was the director of open source at Google from August 2004 until January of 2023.
The open source team at Google oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through pro ...
and Craig Ross.
References
1969 births
Living people
American computer programmers
Geeknet
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