David A. Wheeler
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- For the inventor of the subroutine and co-inventor of the Burrows-Wheeler transform, see David Wheeler.
David A. Wheeler (born 1965) specializes in developing high-risk software systems, particularly large software systems and computer security. He has written a number of articles on open source software and free software. His articles and books include:
- "Commercial" is not the opposite of Free-Libre/Open-Source Software
- Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!
- Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
- More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size
- The Most Important Software Innovations
- Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else.
- Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice by David A. Wheeler, Bill Brykczynski, and Reginald N. Meeson, Jr. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 0-8186-7340-0.
- Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-94801-5.
He lives in Northern Virginia.
[edit] Most important software innovations
In 2001, Wheeler made a list of the most important software concepts developed until that date.
