Editing Ian Murdock (section)

==Life and career==
Although Murdock's parents were both from [[Southern Indiana]],<ref>{{cite journal | last=Campbell | first=Tom | url=https://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/connections/spring2004/pg_01_01-AirSeaLand1.htm | title=One by air, one by sea, one by land | journal=Purdue Agriculture Connections | volume=13 | issue=2 | date=Spring 2004 | access-date=November 18, 2019 | archive-date=November 18, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118130248/https://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/connections/spring2004/pg_01_01-AirSeaLand1.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> he was born in [[Konstanz]], [[West Germany]], on April 28, 1973, where his father was pursuing postdoctoral
research. The family returned to the United States in 1975, and Murdock grew up in [[Lafayette, Indiana]], beginning in 1977 when his father became a professor of [[entomology]] at [[Purdue University]]. Murdock graduated from [[William Henry Harrison High School (West Lafayette, Indiana)|Harrison High School]] in 1991,<ref>{{cite book | title=The Prophet | series = William Henry Harrison High School Yearbook | date=1991}}</ref> and then earned his [[bachelor's degree]] in [[computer science]] from Purdue in 1996.

While a college student, Murdock founded the Debian project in August 1993, and wrote the [[Debian Manifesto]] in January 1994. Murdock conceived Debian as a Linux distribution that embraced open design, contributions, and support from the [[free software]] community. He named Debian after his then-girlfriend (later wife) Debra Lynn Roundy, and himself.<ref>{{cite book |last = Nixon |first = Robin |title = Ubuntu: Up and Running |page = 3 |publisher = [[O'Reilly Media]] |year = 2010 |isbn = 978-0-596-80484-8 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=badSTnfeOoAC }}</ref> They later married, had three children, and divorced in January 2008.<ref>{{cite web|date=6 February 2008 |url=http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/NEWS01/802060334 |title=Fort Wayne News-Sentinel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101195756/http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080206%2FNEWS01%2F802060334 |archive-date=1 November 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In January 2006, Murdock was appointed Chief Technology Officer of the [[Free Standards Group]] and elected chair of the [[Linux Standard Base]] workgroup.<ref>{{cite web |title = Debian Founder Ian Murdock Appointed Chief Technology Officer of the Free Standards Group And Linux Standard Base Workgroup Chair |url = http://www.freestandards.org/wordpress/?p=168 |website = Free Standards Group |access-date = 31 December 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060924152208/http://www.freestandards.org/wordpress/?p=168 |archive-date = 24 September 2006 |date = 31 January 2006 }}</ref> He continued as CTO of the [[Linux Foundation]] when the group was formed from the merger of the Free Standards Group and [[Open Source Development Labs]].

Murdock left the Linux Foundation to join [[Sun Microsystems]] in March 2007<ref>{{cite web|last1=Murdock |first1=Ian |title=Joining Sun |url=http://ianmurdock.com/sun/joining-sun/ |website=ianmurdock.com |access-date=31 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229125918/http://ianmurdock.com/sun/joining-sun/ |archive-date=29 December 2015}}</ref> to lead [[Project Indiana]], which he described as "taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]", making a full [[OpenSolaris]] distribution with [[GNOME]] and [[User space|userland]] tools from [[GNU]] plus a network-based package management system.<ref>{{citation|publisher=IT Jungle |url=http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html |title=The Unix Guardian |contribution=Q and A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304190824/http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html |archive-date=4 March 2013}}</ref> From March 2007 to February 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=Ian%20Murdock |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430110816/http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=Ian%20Murdock |archive-date=30 April 2008 |publisher=Sun Microsystems |title=Executive Bio |url-status=dead}}</ref> until the company [[Oracle acquisition of Sun|merged with Oracle]] and he resigned his position with the company.<ref name="Ars 2015" />

From 2011 until 2015, Murdock was Vice President of Platform and Developer Community at [[Salesforce Marketing Cloud]], based in [[Indianapolis]].<ref name="Ars 2015">{{cite web |url = https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-murdock-father-of-debian-dead-at-42/ |title = Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42 |work = [[Ars Technica]] |last = Gallagher |first = Sean |date = 30 December 2015 |access-date = 30 December 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://ianmurdock.com/about/ |title=About me « Ian Murdock's Weblog |date=22 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009183841/http://ianmurdock.com/about/ |archive-date=9 October 2014}}</ref>

From November 2015 until his death, Murdock was working for [[Docker, Inc.]]<ref name="Ars 2015"/>