Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born August 6, 1977), known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003.
Before Ximian, Friedman worked on the GNU ROPE project, and interned at Silicon Graphics and Microsoft. In 1999, he received a Bachelor of Science in both Computer Science and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nat is currently the Vice President of Linux Desktop at Novell. The nephew of Brad Dourif, Friedman currently lives in Boston, MA.