Joe Barr
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Joe Barr (born October 19, 1944), is an editor and writer for the SourceForge sites Linux.com and IT Manager's Journal.
A former programmer, Barr has worked on everything from microcomputers like the TRS-80 Model I to IBM mainframes with acres of DASD, writing code in more than a dozen languages, including RPG II, 370 ALC, COBOL, BASIC, TIBOL, MASM, and C. Much of that experience coming in his 13 years with Ross Perot's EDS.[citation needed]
As a writer, Barr first gained notoriety and, according to Ziff-Davis' Spencer F. Katt, a cult-like following for his zine, The Dweebspeak Primer.[citation needed] Barr began writing about personal computing in 1994, and primarily about Linux and open source in 1998, when he began writing for IDG's LinuxWorld.com. The MPlayer project made him even better known by dedicating a derogatory page to him in their documentation after he wrote a piece entitled MPlayer: the project from hell.[1]
In 2001, Barr was awarded a Silver Medal by the American Society of Business Publication Editors in the category of Best Web Commentary for his article entitled Dumbing Down Linux.[2] For the past several years, he has worked at OSTG, writing articles, columns, and commentary for NewsForge and Linux.com. Barr's first book, CLI for Noobies, was published in 2007 by the SourceForge Community Press.
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