Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

male, 56 years old
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation. Builder AU recently caught up with RMS about his achievements,...
Jamie Zawinski

Jamie Zawinski

male, 41 years old
Jamie W. Zawinski (born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is a computer programmer responsible for significant...
James Gosling

James Gosling

male, 54 years old (California, United States)
James Gosling is a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several...
Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond

male, 52 years old
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement....
Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a...

Robert J. Chassell

male
Robert (aka "Bob") Chassell was one of the founding directors of Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985. While on the Board of Directors, Chassell...

Thomas Bushnell

male
Thomas Bushnell, BSG is a Gregorian friar, formerly living in Massachusetts and now in southern California. He was the principal architect and...
Eben Moglen

Eben Moglen

male (New York, New York, United States)
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom...
Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky

male, 44 years old
Joel Spolsky started his web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to...
Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen

male, 38 years old (Los Altos, California, United States)
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer...