Gaël Duval
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Gaël Duval (born 1973) is a French entrepreneur. In July 1998, he created Mandrake Linux (which became Mandriva Linux, now discontinued), a Linux distribution originally based on Red Hat Linux and KDE.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was also a co-founder of MandrakeSoft (which merged in Mandriva, now discontinued) with Jacques Le Marois and Frédéric Bastok.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Gaël Duval was responsible for communication in the Mandriva management team until he was laid off by the company in March 2006, in a round of cost-cutting.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Duval suspected part of the reason for his dismissal was disagreement with management over the company's future strategy, resulting in a lawsuit against the company.<ref>La page perso de Gaël Duval, créateur de Mandrake Linux/Mandriva Linux, co-fondateur de Mandrakesoft/Mandriva - FAQ Mandriva Template:Webarchive</ref><ref>Interview of François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva Template:Webarchive</ref>
Template:As of, Duval is chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Ulteo.<ref>Ulteo brings OpenOffice to Web browser | Tech news blog - CNET News.com</ref> The company was bought by AZNetwork group in 2015.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2016, he co-founded NFactory.io, an incubator-accelerator of "startups".<ref>« La Normandie est une belle carte à jouer »</ref>
In November 2017, Gael Duval created the /e/ mobile operating system,<ref>Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ is the symbol for “my data is MY data” — Gaël Duval (news, mandrake, /e/ my data is my data...)</ref> which is a privacy-oriented fork of the Android-based LineageOS accompanied with a set of online services.<ref name="Linux Magazine">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2018, Duval founded the E Foundation, which maintains /e/,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Announcing «e Foundation» for eelo — Gaël Duval (news, mandrake, /e/ my data is my data…)</ref> and ECORP SAS (now Murena), a privately held corporation, which operates their online sales and services sites.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Education
Duval is a graduate of the University of Caen Normandy in France, where he studied networks and documentary applications.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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