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Cory Ondrejka is a software developer best known as the former Chief Technology Officer of [[Linden Lab]], makers of [[Second Life]].

==Career==
Before joining Linden Lab, Ondrejka served as Project Leader and Lead Programmer for Pacific Coast Power and Light, where he helped to develop Road Rash 64 and built a core technology team to deliver titles to the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation consoles. 

Ondrejka joined Second Life in 2000, being the fourth employee retained by the company. He played a significant role in developing the architecture of the product, and was chiefly responsible for the development of the Linden Scripting Language. He reportedly spearheaded Linden Lab's initiatives in favour of user intellectual property rights and open source code.

Ondrejka was known in Second Life as "Cory Linden." He also created an elaborate avatar to appear in the 3D world as the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

After leaving Linden Lab, Ondrejka became Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy for the EMI Group, until he left EMI in September 2009.

==Personal Links==
*Personal website: http://ondrejka.net
*Old blog "collapsing geography": http://ondrejka.blogspot.com
*Twitter: http://twitter.com/coryondrejka
*LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cory-ondrejka/0/17a/314

==Other Links==
*Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Ondrejka
*Article about Cory's recruitment by EMI: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/10/emi.musicnews
*Article about Cory's departure from EMI: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/08/tech-gains-and-the-music-industry-looses-as-cory-ondrejka-leaves-emi.html

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