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* Co-founder '''[[Steve Wallach]]''' is well known for his work at Data General, Convex, [[Convey Computer]] Corporation and other companies.

* '''Brian Berliner''' developer of the current [[Concurrent Versions System]] is an ExCon.

* '''Rob Kolstad''', head of software at Convex, whoand subsequentlysecretary of [[USENIX]], afterwards became CEO of [[BSDI]] which co-sponsoredwon the landmark BSDI (& UC-Berkeley) vs. AT&TUSL UNIX lawsuit which made BSD Unix4.4BSD-Lite an official freely-redistributable open-source productUNIX, i.e. it made Berkeley UNIX open-source software.

* '''[[Tom Christiansen]]''' of [[Perl]] fame worked at Convex in the Technical Assistance Center and then on a project called '''Convex Meta Series''', which was an attempt to create cheap [[Computer cluster|cluster computers]].

* '''[[Dan Connolly (computer scientist)|Dan Connolly]]''' of [[HTML]] and [[W3C]] fame worked at Convex on the documentation tools team.