| |  | Richard Matthew Stallman (often abbreviated as RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is a software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In... |  | Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of... |  | Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Miguel de Icaza was born... |  | Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public... |  | Federico Mena Quintero is a Mexican computer programmer. He wrote the GNOME Canvas while working at Red Hat. He also maintained GIMP for a time,... |  | is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. He was born in Osaka... |  | Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in... |  | Alan Cox (born 1968) is a British computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). |  | Denis "Jaromil" Rojo (also known as the Rasta Coder) is a free software programmer, a media artist and activist. He has made significant... |  | Keith Packard is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System. Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical... | |
