Ulrich Drepper

Ulrich Drepper (b. 1968) is a German software developer who works for Red Hat, and who is best known as the lead contributor to and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). He studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He was also one of the leaders of 86open.
Technical work
He has also authored several well recognised articles and papers on computer programming, most of which are publicly available on his website. Some of these articles include:
* "How to write shared libraries": an article on how to write dynamic shared objects to obtain optimal results.
* "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory": an article about different aspects of memory and processor caches that can aid programmers on obtaining best results on memory management.
Community interaction
Drepper has publicly complained about many of his collaborators such as Richard Stallman, the Linux Standard Base, and the ISO group for standardising the C and C++ languages. See also his refusal to integrate Esperanto language locale and strlcpy into Glibc.
Drepper's attitude towards communication was cited as one of the primary reasons for the Debian project starting a transition from glibc to EGLIBC.

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