Career
He was the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989. He continued as the primary maintainer of bash until at least early 1993. In 1985 Fox worked with Richard Stallman at Stallman"s newly created Free Software Foundation.
At the FSF, Fox authored GNU Bash, GNU Makeinfo, GNU Info, GNU Finger, GNU Echoand the readline and history libraries.
He was also the maintainer of GNU Emacs for a time, and made many contributions to the software that was created for the GNU Project between 1986 and 1994. Fox also wrote AMACS, a cut down implementation of Emacs for the Apple II series.
He is the son of physicist and educator Herbert Fox and grandson of artist Daniel Fox, creator of the Monopoly Manitoba