Scott Swedorski is the founder of
Tucows
Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent business ...
(The Ultimate Collection of
Winsock Software), a large
Internet
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domain name
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reseller, and
Internet service provider
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.
History
Scott served in the military and then received an associate degree from
Mott Community College in
Flint
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.
In 1993 he worked for the
Flint
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Area Library Online Networ
(FALCON)Swedorski felt there was a need for public access to Internet-related software. Working from home, he created a site to provide the public with free and easily downloaded software.
In 2002, Swedorski received the lifetime achievement award from the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation (SIAF) for his work with shareware software authors.
Shareware Industry Awards
, accessed April 16, 2007
Swedorski retired from Tucows in 2003 and launched a new software promotions company. He is also the Vice President of distribution and marketing at CoffeeCup Software, where he helped co-found the Organization of Independent Software Vendors. Scott also runs FileLight.com, a large shareware download site.
References
External links
Tucows
Organization of Independent Software Vendors
1970 births
Living people
Tucows
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