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Bruce Wayne Bastian (March 23, 1948 – June 16, 2024) was an American computer programmer, and businessperson, and philanthropist. He co-founded the WordPerfect Software Company (originally known as Satellite Software International) with Alan Ashton in 1978.
3 days ago · Bruce Wayne Bastian was born on March 23, 1948, in Twin Falls, Idaho. His father, Arlon, owned a grocery store and a farm and was also a musician. His mother, Una (Davis) Bastian, managed the ...
3 days ago · Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect Co-Creator Who Became an LGBTQ Activist, Dies at 76 While his company was producing the world’s dominant word-processing software, he came out as gay to his wife, sons ...
2 days ago · Obit Tech entrepreneur Bruce Wayne Bastian, co-founder of WordPerfect, died last month at the age of 76 at his home in Palmdale, California.. The cause, according to the B. W. Bastian Foundation, was "complications associated with pulmonary fibrosis." Bastian helped create the word processing application that became WordPerfect while still a graduate student at Brigham Young University, working with Alan Ashton, his computer science professor.
Jun 17, 2024 · Bruce Bastian, the co-founder of the Utah software company WordPerfect and a benefactor of Utah arts groups and LGBTQ+ organizations, died on Sunday at age 76.
Jun 17, 2024 · Bruce Bastian, who co-founded successful word processing platform WordPerfect and later became a philanthropist and champion of the LGBTQ+ community, died Sunday.
Jun 17, 2024 · The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, today announced the death of Bruce Bastian, tech entrepreneur, HRC board member and fierce advocate for equality, who passed away peacefully Sunday at the age of 76, surrounded by his four sons, his husband, Clint Ford, and friends and other family members.
Jun 17, 2024 · Bruce Bastian, an alumnus of Brigham Young University who pioneered a successful word-processing application and later would become an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, died Sunday.
Jun 17, 2024 · Bruce Bastian, a successful Utah businessman and pioneering computer software developer who co-founded the word processing company WordPerfect before becoming a beloved philanthropist who donated...
3 days ago · Bruce Bastian, the graduate student who was working as BYU's marching-band director, turned out to be a quick learner. "He was very conscientious, very thorough," Ashton said in an interview, "and just absolutely brilliant." Within a few years, the two were at work on a program that would turn them into two of the richest people in the nation, founders of the company that made WordPerfect, the dominant word-processing software in the 1980s and early '90s and one of the first pieces of ...
