Robert "Bob" Chassell was one of the founding directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Robert J. Chassell | |
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Born | Bennington, Vermont, U.S. | 22 August 1946
Died | 30 June 2017[1] | (aged 70)
Bob was born on 22 August 1946, in Bennington, VT. He read economics at Peterhouse, Cambridge University.[2]
In 1985, he became one of the founding directors of the FSF. While on the Board of Directors, he was also the treasurer for the FSF.[3] At this time, he started the Texinfo documentation system for GNU together with Richard Stallman.
He left the FSF to become a full-time speaker on free software topics. He was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) in 2010, and died as a result on 30 June 2017.
Chassell has authored several books including: