Nikolai Bezroukov is a Senior Internet Security Analyst at BASF Corporation and was member of Computer Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey, United States).
From 1996 he is the webmaster of Softpanorama.org, a site with the self-claimed mission-statement to offer "slightly skeptical" positions regarding computer science education, system administration and software development professions.
[citation needed] His later Virus Bulletin Conference review[5] became popular and is reproduced by multiple hacker and antivirus defence web sites.
[11] In 2000 he published a third paper, cited in academia,[12] in which he analyzed the essence of Stallman's software development model and provided a comprehensive critique of GPL's foundations.
[13] In 2005 he published the next of his series of papers devoted to a critical assessment of open source development, in which he tried to analyze achievements and pitfalls of two similar operating systems: Linux and Solaris.