Icons of the open source movement

[fingal]

Perhaps a few lesser known names Bruce Perens, Miguel de Icaza, Theo de Raadt, Jon Hall, Eben Moglen (I am bias), Tim O'Reilly

Hi Vergil - Many thanks for your very interesting contributions!

[daacosta]

Hi Vergil - Many thanks for your very interesting contributions!

Hmmm... How is it that I forgot about Icaza? Then by association:

Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis must precede him because they devised The Gimp and its toolkit which nowadays is used for millions of projects...

[stubbe]

Don't forget Ton Roosendaal. Blender 3d is almost becoming the de facto 3D animation suite on Linux just like gimp in 2D field.

[zOrK]

Dennis Ritchie and Thompson should be at the top of that list!!.
they made C and unix, there wouldn't be an unix-like system at these days.
I mean, NO Minix , NO Linux, NO NetBSD, etc.

[kern]

I remember a comment several years ago by the freebsd team in an interview.

it related to the several unsung 'heroes' who wanted to remain just that, I mean, its great putting these people on a pedestal , but they are the only people from the project that you can associate it to. The others just work on , for the love of the project, thousands of them, they require no pedestal or admiration.

[fingal]

I remember a comment several years ago by the freebsd team in an interview.

it related to the several unsung 'heroes' who wanted to remain just that, I mean, its great putting these people on a pedestal , but they are the only people from the project that you can associate it to. The others just work on , for the love of the project, thousands of them, they require no pedestal or admiration.

Yes you make a good point there which perhaps this thread detracted from.

Without people doing all that 'working for love' there wouldn't be a Linux community.

They have fun writing code, we have fun using it!