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-lsb- http://tb.becket.net thomas bsg -rsb- formerly michael bushnell united states 13 december 1967 gnu hurd thomas bushnell
 thomas bushnell , bsg
thomas bushnell

thomas bushnell , bsg , formerly known as michael bushnell , is a software developer and gregorian friar .
he was the founder and principal architect of gnu 's official kernel project , gnu hurd .
bushnell was also hurd 's official maintainer from its instigation until november 2003 , when he posted to the gnu project 's discussion mailing list saying that he had been dismissed by richard stallman for criticizing the gnu free documentation license .
stallman said the dismissal was because bushnell had been inactive since 2001 and was n't responding to mail .
thomas remains active in free software , maintaining several debian packages and is employed by google , inc. .
