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Free & Open Source
Personalities
Free & Open Source Personalities
(their contributions, and some articles on them)
- GNU’s
Who – List of those Assisting the FSF – from GNU.org
- Richard Stallman
– Founder of the Free Source Movement. Stallman
founded the GNU Project in 1984 in an attempt to create his own
Unix-like operating system that was freely shareable. He also started
the Free Software movement to espouse his political agenda of
freely-shared intellectual property. Stallman's philosophical and
technical work became the foundation for Linux and the Open Source
movement.
- Eric Raymond –
of Cathedral & the Bazaar fame (Armed,
but not Dangerous – an Interview with Eric Raymond). Raymond authored the paper "The Cathedral and
the Bazaar" which brought outside attention and understanding to
the sociological underpinnings of the Open Source movement.
- Larry Wall –
Perl
- Bruce Perens - Bruce authored the Open Source definition
- Eben Moglen
– The Legal Beagle (Meet the
DotCommunist – Law.com, Free Software’s
White Knight – Eben Moglen, an Interview)
- Linus
Torvalds – Linux. In 1991 he created the
Linux kernel (the unifying program for a Unix-like operating system) at
age twenty-one while enrolled at the University of Helsinki in his native Finland.
- Eric Allman
– Sendmail (see here
Salon feature on Allman & Sendmail)
- Brian Behlendorf
– Apache; Founder of SF-Raves mailing list. Original Webmaster for
Hotwired, Wired magazine's online component. Chief coordinator of the
Apache Project.
- Rasmus Lerdorf – Php
- Monty
Widenius – MySQL
- Andrew Tridgell
– Samba
- John Viega – Mailman
- Guido van Rossum
– Python
- Tim
O’Reilly – O’Reilly & Associates (Making
Programs Like Water – Free and Transparent - PDF)
- Ciaran O'Riordan, Chairman, Irish Free Software Organization
- Larry Augustin - Augustin
co-founded VA Linux Systems, one of the first companies based upon the
Linux operating system. VA Linux Systems was a key early supporter of
Linux and the Open Source movement.
- Michael Tiemann - In 1989
Tiemann co-founded the first company based upon the GNU Project
technology and principles of the Free Software movement. Tiemann is
currently the CTO of Redhat Software, the most prominent Linux company.
- Brian Behlendorf - Behlendorf
is one of the original co-developers of the Apache Web Server. Apache is
the most commonly used web server in the world with almost 60% of the
market. Apache was the first "killer app" for Linux.
- Frank Hecker - Hecker is a
former Netscape systems engineer who authored a key internal white paper
that advocated Netscape releasing its source code to the public.
- Chris DiBona
- Nick Moffitt
- Donnie Barnes
- Rob Malda - Malda (a.k.a.
CmdrTaco) is the editor of the famous hacker website Slashdot
- Marc Merlin - Merlin is the
president of Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
- Keith Bostic: Credited for leading the effort to write
freely redistributable versions of every single part of Berkeley Unix.
- Alan Cox: Linus Torvald's second-in-command, prominent
Linux hacker.
- John Gilmore: Co-founder of Cygnus Software, the first
company to attempt to make a business out of free software. A believer
in making tools available to the masses for defending against government
intrusiveness.
- Jarkko Oikarinen: Creator of IRC, or Internet Relay
Chat.
- Kirk McKusick: Chairman of the board for BSDi, mainstay
of the CSRG
- Robert J. Chassell - a founding Director and Treasurer
of the Free Software Foundation.
- Federico Heinz - a Latin-American programmer and Free
Software advocate living in Argentina. He is a co-founder of La Fundación Vía Libre, a
non-profit organization that promotes the free flow of knowledge as a
motor for social progress, and the use and development of Free Software
as a powerful tool towards that goal.
- Loïc Dachary - A senior developer who has contributed to
many software projects. In January 2001 he initiated Savannah to improve
the infrastructure of the GNU Project.
- Georg C. F. Greve - a Physicist , he runs the monthly
GNU forum "Brave GNU World" and the program GNU Xlogmaster. He
is also initiator and president of the FSF Europe ( see more info @ http://gnuhh.org )
- Bradley M. Kuhn - Served as Executive Director of FSF,
and now serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the Software Freedom Law
Center, a non-profit law firm that represents the FSF.
- Gerald J. Sussman, Professor of Computer Science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – a director on the board of FSF
- Geoffrey Knauth, Computer Science Instructor at Lycoming
College – a director on board of FSF
- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University
- – a director on board of FSF
- Henri Poole, Founder of CivicActions a grassroots
campaign technology consulting firm - – a director on board of FSF
- Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - – a director on board of
FSF
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