__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:56 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> CBR's open source VIPs - part two
>>
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>> | The free and open source software movement is dominated by individuals
>> | who have shaped and encouraged its adoption by big business. In the
>> | second of two features, Matthew Aslett identifies the open source VIPs.
>> |
>> | CBR's Open Source VIPs: the list in full
>> |
>> | * Larry Augustin
>> | * Miguel de Icaza
>> | * John/Jane Doe
>> | * Matthias Ettrich
>> | * Bill Hilf
>> | * Ron Hovsepian
>> | * Pamela Jones
>> | * Judge Dale Kimball
>> | * Neelie Kroes
>> | * Marten Mickos
>> | * Eben Moglen
>> | * Bruce Perens
>> | * Simon Phipps
>> | * Peter Quinn
>> | * Eric Raymond
>> | * Richard Stallman
>> | * Bob Sutor
>> | * Matthew Szulik
>> | * Michael Tiemann
>> | * Linus Torvalds
>> `----
>>http://www.cbronline.com/article_cbr.asp?guid=20E5F34B-5D51-4215-97B6-44181E083C43
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> A few others I would ad:
> Bob Young (founder of Red Hat)
> Ray Noorda (co-founder of Caldera and Trolltech)
> Patric Volkerding (founder of Slackware - first US commercial Linux
> distribution).
> Jordan Hubbard (leader of FreeBSD movement)
> Bill Joy (published to BSD license while at BSD and to public license
> at SUN).
> Bill Gates (so much open source created to spite him).
> Vint Cerf and John Postel (advocated Open Source internet code
> implementations)
>
> It would be interesting to see who the top 500 names would be.
> (no, I still wouldn't be on it ;-))
Not with /that/ attitude, surely.
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