The Father Of Rockbox

[terrence1019]

Apple had Steve Jobs. Microsoft had Bill Gates.

I always wondered.... who is the Founding Father(s) of Rockbox? When did it all truly begin? I'm interested in the History of Middle Earth... um.... I mean the History of Rockbox....  

[AlexP]

Björn Stenberg (Zagor) and associates, the 'big three' being Zagor, LinusN (Linus Nielsen Feltzing) and Bagder (Daniel Stenberg).

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[yapper]

Just idle curiosity here, but are Bagder and Zagor related?

[AlexP]

Yes, brothers.

[Job Van Dam]

Badger! Wow, and he's still around regularly?!

Man, maybe it's just me but I am in awe of Senior Software Developers and Badger is  so above that... Badger I wanna be you.  

[Llorean]

BaGDer. Just as a small note.

[terrence1019]

Cool. I think this is good information to put on the Rockbox site when it gets its new look. There should be a quick link to a page called Project History.

[LinusN]

There is a kind of history/changelog here: http://www.rockbox.org/history.html

It doesn't really tell the story, but it contains some interesting milestones.

[AlexP]

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Hehe, whose name did I get wrong?  I did try!

Badger! Wow, and he's still around regularly?!

All three are still around and heavily involved.

[LinusN]

-- edit: fix spelling -- LinusN

Hehe, whose name did I get wrong?  I did try!

You spelled my middle name "Nielson", but it's "Nielsen". :-)

[AlexP]

My apologies - that would have been my guess.  I even checked which way round the first i and e were, but clearly assumed for the second half  

[Bagder]

Man, maybe it's just me but I am in awe of Senior Software Developers and Badger is  so above that... Badger I wanna be you.  

Hey, thanks a lot for these friendly words. I'll print them out, frame them and hang them above my bed! :-)

[LambdaCalculus]

Kudos to all three of the guys from me on Ohloh!