Interesting, thanks. I recognized his name as one who worked [1] on the X Window system, from a book in an X/Xlib/Motif course [2] I attended much earlier.
[2] On a side note, Motif was pretty powerful. I remember a colleague of mine who was also in that course, creating a rudimentary app like MS Paint, in the class, in just half an hour or so - as the instructor was teaching, in fact. (Maybe he had studied it some before, of course.) As he demoed it to us, he went "Foo!" :)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Packard
Googled his name and found this:
A look at The Machine [LWN.net]:
https://lwn.net/Articles/655437/
[2] On a side note, Motif was pretty powerful. I remember a colleague of mine who was also in that course, creating a rudimentary app like MS Paint, in the class, in just half an hour or so - as the instructor was teaching, in fact. (Maybe he had studied it some before, of course.) As he demoed it to us, he went "Foo!" :)