About the reviewer

Alessandro Rubini discovered free software during his PhD, so despite being an electronic engineer, he spent 20 years writing device drivers for a free operating system, and even wrote Linux Device Drivers about this art. He has been teaching Real Time Systems as contract professor in Pavia. He's a member of FSFE and a number of other freedom-oriented associations. Currently, he's mostly designing PCBs for peripheral devices and writing firmware for the microcontrollers he places in there.