Bruce Byfield (born May 13, 1958) is a Canadian journalist who specializes in writing about

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. He has been a contributing editor at

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, and his articles have appeared on the

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, LWN, Linux Developer Network, and

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sites. He also writes a monthly blog for the Linux Journal website, which provides introductions to popular free software such as

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, and

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, and a weekly blog for Linux Pro Magazine about free software and the issues surrounding it. In addition to his online publications, he has published in such magazines as

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and The New Internationalist, and writes a column about the command line for Linux Pro Magazine. His personal blog, ''Off the Wall'', is a collection of short personal essays. Before becoming a journalist, Byfield was marketing and communications director at

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, and product manager at

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Technologies. He also designs elearning courses and is a marketing and communications consultant. Byfield lives in

Burnaby Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula, it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west, the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard In ...

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. In addition to free and open source software, his interests include parrots, running, science fiction, collecting Northwest Coast Art and listening to punk-folk music. He is the co-founder of the Mature Student Award at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art at Northwest Community College, and currently serves on the board of the YVR Art Foundation. He is unrelated to the conservative journalist, publisher and editor

Ted Byfield Edward Bartlett Byfield (10 July 1928 – 23 December 2021) was a Canadian conservatism in Canada, conservative teacher, journalist, historian, and publisher. He co-founded ''Saint John's Cathedral Boys' School'' and ''Saint John's School of Al ...

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Books

* ''Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber''. West Warwick: Necronomicon Press. . * ''Designing with

'', 2016, Friends of

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