Pieter Hintjens

Hintjens was born in Congo in 1962 and grew up in East Africa.{{cite web |publisher=The Hintjens' Wiki |url=http://hintjens.com/pieter-hintjens:cv:personal-details |title=Pieter Hintjens |accessdate=2 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070129061950/http://hintjens.com/pieter-hintjens%3Acv%3Apersonal-details |archive-date=29 January 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://members.digistan.org/member:pieter-hintjens|title=Pieter Hintjens - members.digistan.org|website=members.digistan.org|access-date=2016-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918004740/http://members.digistan.org/member:pieter-hintjens|archive-date=18 September 2016|url-status=dead}}

Hintjens served as CEO and chief software designer for iMatix, a firm that produced free software applications, such as the ZeroMQ high performance message library, the OpenAMQ AMQP messaging service, Libero,{{cite web|url=https://imatix-legacy.github.io/libero/lrintr.htm|title=Introduction to Libero|access-date=2016-10-04}} the GSL code generator,{{cite web|url=https://github.com/imatix/gsl|title=GSL/4.1 - a Universal Code Generator|website=GitHub |access-date=2016-10-04}} and the Xitami web server.{{cite web|url=https://imatix-legacy.github.io/|title=Welcome to iMatix|website=imatix-legacy.github.io|access-date=2016-09-15}}

He was active in open standards development, being the author of the original Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), a founder of the Digital Standards Organization, and the editor of the RestMS web messaging protocol.RestMS.org, [http://www.restms.org/spec:2 RestMS - a RESTful Messaging Service] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531110202/http://www.restms.org/spec:2 |date=31 May 2016 }} RestMS is developed using a peer-to-peer, share-alike, branch and merge model (COSS) developed by Hintjens and others for the Digital Standards Organization in 2008.{{cite web |publisher=Digistan |url=http://www.digistan.org/spec:1 |title=Consensus-Oriented Specification System |access-date=22 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420070511/http://www.digistan.org/spec:1 |archive-date=20 April 2009 |url-status=dead }}

He was CEO of {{interlanguage link|Wikidot|simple }} Inc., a wikifarm, until February 2010.{{cn|date=June 2022}}

In 2010, Hintjens was diagnosed with bile duct cancer, which was successfully surgically removed.{{cite web | url=http://hintjens.com/blog:109 | title=Five Years, Five Wishes | date=2015-12-10 | accessdate=2016-04-22}} However, in April 2016, it returned and he was diagnosed with terminal cholangiocarcinoma.{{cite web | url=http://hintjens.com/blog:115 | title=A Protocol For Dying | date=2016-04-21 | accessdate=2016-04-22}} Hintjens underwent voluntary euthanasia on 4 October 2016.{{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592 | title=I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words. | date=2016-10-04 | accessdate=2016-10-04}}

While in his position as iMatix CEO, Hintjens founded the ZeroMQ software project together with Martin Sustrik. ZeroMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications.

In November 2013, Hintjens announced EdgeNet, a project building upon ZeroMQ for mesh networks.{{cite web|url=https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/edgenet/x/5209896|title=edgenet|publisher=}} EdgeNet aims to build a secure, anonymous peer-to-peer alternative to the internet.{{cite web|url=http://cultureandempire.com/edgenet.html|title=Culture & Empire · GitBook|publisher=}} Hintjens also authored several ZeroMQ projects, such as CZMQ, zproto, and Malamute.

In October 2007, Hintjens warned that after mortgages and consumer debt, patents were a third economic bubble waiting to damage the global economy, writing: "House prices fall and bad debt shakes the financial markets across the US and Europe. Bankers look nervously at their portfolios of consumer debt and mortgages. But some analysts say that it's patents, not houses or loans, that will tip the global financial market into crisis".Digital Majority, [http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-21772/will-the-patent-system-trigger-financial-collapse-in-2008 "Will the patent system trigger financial collapse in 2008?'']

• "Confessions of a Necromancer", 2016
• "Social Architecture", 2016{{cite web|url=http://hintjens.com/books|title=Books by Pieter Hintjens |website=hintjens.com|access-date=2016-05-17}}
• "The Psychopath Code", 2015
• "ZeroMQ: Messaging for Many Applications", O'Reilly Media, 2013
• "Culture and Empire: Digital Revolution", 2013
• "Code Connected Volume 1", 2013
• "Scalable C", unfinished{{cite web|url=https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/scalable-c/details|title=Scalable C (in progress) |website=GitBook|access-date=2016-09-15}}
• "A protocol for dying", 2016{{cite web|url= http://hintjens.com/blog:115|title=A protocol for dying |website=hintjens.com|access-date=2020-03-15}}

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• [http://sdtimes.com/sd-times-blog-zeromq-founder-pieter-hintjens-dies/ "ZeroMQ founder Pieter Hintjens dies" - SD Times blog]

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