Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ,----[ Gist ]
> | Larry Augustin
> | Miguel de Icaza
> | John/Jane Doe
> | Matthias Ettrich
> | Bill Hilf (FUDMeister)
> | The new man: Novell's Ron Hovsepian
> | I am not a lawyer: Groklaw's Pamela Jones
> | Judge Dale Kimball
> | Neelie Kroes
> | Marten Mickos
> `----
>
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_cbr.asp?guid=34CB00FF-0D6F-481C-8036-36413053EA98
I can think of at least a dozen who should be on the list with them.
Richard Stallman - creator of GPL
Bill Joy - major publisher under BSD, even after the formation of Sun.
Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux kernel.
Patrick Volkerding - Slackware - first US Commercial version of Linux.
Bob Young - First to turn Linux into a multimillion dollar business.
Marc Andreeson - Mosaic was the first "Mass Market" OSS.
Brewster Kahle - First to implement search engines to search search
engines, with HTML
interface - WAIS in was crucial to the early success of the Word Wide
Web.
Matt Suzlik? - Started the Linux Documentation Project
Jordan Hubbard - Creator of FreeBSD, a major OSS rival to Linux.
John "Mad Dog" Hall - one of the earliest public Linux Advocates.
Bill Gates - a "common enemy", without which there might not be quite
as much cooperation between the OSS factions.
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