Lynne Jolitz

Lynne Greer Jolitz (born 30 June 1961) is a figure in the free software movement and a founder of many startups in Silicon Valley. Together with her husband William Jolitz she created 386BSD, the first open-source Unix-based operating system for personal computers to be distributed over the Internet. She is an author and authority on operating systems and networking issues, has commented on events in the computer industry for Internet news media, and wrote frequently for BYTE magazine. She holds patents in Internet technologies and semiconductor memory innovations, writes technical papers and articles, and advises the Internet startup CoolClip network, which uses a server-based video production engine she originally designed and tested at the University of California, Berkeley.