Icons of the open source movement

[fingal]

Hello - the idea behind this thread is to ask: who are the hackers? I mean people who have contributed to the world
of computers through their tireless zeal and enthusiasm; certainly not system crackers who are obviously all going to Hell one day. Tomorrow probably.

Earlier today I tried to find a good list, or a site dedicated to great hackers, but I couldn't find one. In this thread daacosta and me were discussing the whole thing and we came up with some pretty obvious names ... Well I did. He managed to think of some more original ones than me. As it stands the list goes something like this:

Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Alan Cox
Larry Wall
Don Knuth
Eric Raymond
Guido van Rossum

I would add:

Grace Murray Hopper: the mother of COBOL (ugly baby!!)
Tim Berners-Lee ...
Alan Turing ...

Who were those people who worked on the ARPANET??

[Benny8909]

I think Richard Stallman should go at the top, afterall, he founded the FSF

John Carmack is an opensource advocate, so he should be on the list.

[fingal]

I think Richard Stallman should go at the top, afterall, he founded the FSF

Okay - Yep ... I can't disagree there: I've changed it so our bearded friend is now at the top of the pile.

[a12ctic]

the leader of the SGI project (not sure about name), without opengl, we wouldnt have 3d in linux

[drl]

Hi.

... people who have contributed to the world of computers through their tireless zeal and enthusiasm ...

More generally, see the links at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_history

In this neck of the woods, the name Seymour Cray brings out a lot of memories for the time he worked at Control Data, then Cray Research.

The final decision on who invented the digital computer was decided not far from where I am typing this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff

The National Labs, big universities.

The arpanet folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet -- I still have a business card with my original arpanet email address; later I worked at Caspian Networks, founded by Larry Roberts

This will be a long list ... cheers, drl

[daacosta]

Hello - the idea behind this thread is to ask: who are the hackers? I mean people who have contributed to the world
of computers through their tireless zeal and enthusiasm; certainly not system crackers who are obviously all going to Hell one day. Tomorrow probably.

Earlier today I tried to find a good list, or a site dedicated to great hackers, but I couldn't find one. In this thread daacosta and me were discussing the whole thing and we came up with some pretty obvious names ... Well I did. He managed to think of some more original ones than me. As it stands the list goes something like this:

Richard Stallman
Linux Torvalds
Alan Cox
Larry Wall
Don Knuth
Eric Raymond
Guido van Rossum

I would add:

Grace Murray Hopper: the mother of COBOL (ugly baby!!)
Tim Berners-Lee ...
Alan Turing ...

Who were those people who worked on the ARPANET??

Dude... You mispelled Linus...

Besides you forgot Bill Gates * shucks *

[Benny8909]

Bill Gates definitely. He motivates us opensource folks

[fingal]

Dude... You mispelled Linus...

Besides you forgot Bill Gates * shucks *

Ooops - I amended the spelling. Brain lag ... I entered the thread at about 1am after a long day at work. Mind you, I think he should change his name.

Who's Bill Grapes?

[Giles]

Dennis Ritchie?

Toodle-oo
Giles

[Vergil83]

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