Guy L. "Bud" Tribble is a software technologist known for his work on the original Apple Macintosh.
[1] He served as manager of the software development team, and helped to design the classic Mac OS and its user interface.
At Eazel, he was vice president of Engineering leading development of next generation user interface software and Internet services for Linux computers.
[5] Tribble was also chief technology officer for the Sun-Netscape Alliance, responsible for guiding Internet and e-commerce software R&D.
As of 2016, Tribble is one of three "policy czars" at Apple (along with Jane Horvath and Erik Neuenschwander) who spends a significant amount of time on privacy.