Pieter Hintjens
| Pieter Hintjens | |
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| Born |
3 December 1962 Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Died | 4 October 2016 (aged 53) |
| Cause of death | Voluntary euthanasia after diagnosis of terminal bile duct cancer |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | CEO, software developer, author |
| Website | hintjens |
Pieter Hintjens (3 December 1962 – 4 October 2016) was a Belgian software developer, author, and past president of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an association that fights against software patents. In 2007, he was nominated one of the "50 most influential people in IP" by Managing Intellectual Property magazine.
Hintjens was born in Congo in 1962 and grew up in East Africa.
Hintjens served as CEO and chief software designer for iMatix, a firm that produced free software applications, such as the ZeroMQ high performance message library, the OpenAMQ AMQP messaging service, Libero, the GSL code generator, and the Xitami web server.
He was active in open standards development, being the author of the original (AMQP), a founder of the Digital Standards Organization, and the editor of the RestMS web messaging protocol. RestMS is developed using a peer-to-peer, share-alike, branch and merge model (COSS) developed by Hintjens and others for the Digital Standards Organization in 2008.
He was CEO of Inc., one of the fastest growing , until February 2010.
In 2010 Hintjens was diagnosed with bile duct cancer, which was successfully surgically removed. However, in April 2016, it returned and he was diagnosed with terminal cholangiocarcinoma. Hintjens underwent voluntary euthanasia on 4 October 2016.
While in his position as iMatix CEO, Hintjens founded the ZeroMQ software project together with Martin Sustrik. ZeroMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications.
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