About Michael Meeks
Born 1977. Michael Meeks is a British programmer and collabora.
Michael Meeks is a British software developer. He is primarily known for his work on GNOME, OpenOffice.org and now LibreOffice. He has been a contributor to the GNOME project for a long time working on its infrastructure and associated applications, particularly CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and GNOME accessibility. He has worked at Novell, SuSE and then Collabora.
Meeks is a free software hacker who has contributed a lot of time to decreasing program load time. He created the direct binding, hashvals, and dynsort implementations for GNU Binutils and glibc.
Meeks is a Christian, which he says made him think about the moral aspects of his own illegal use of non-free software and converted him finally to free software.
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Who is Michael Meeks?
British software developer
When was Michael Meeks born?
Michael Meeks was born on 18 June 1977 in London.
What is Michael Meeks's occupation?
Michael Meeks is a programmer and collabora.
What nationality is Michael Meeks?
Michael Meeks is British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Michael Meeks. https://biography.guide/michael-meeks-programmer/
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