Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

male, 39 years old
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of...
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,...
Hans Reiser

Hans Reiser

male, 46 years old
Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 1963) is an American computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community in the field...
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....
Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza

male, 37 years old
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...
Larry Wall

Larry Wall

male, 55 years old
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in...
Glyn Moody

Glyn Moody

male
Glyn Moody is a technology writer. He is best known for his book "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" (2001). It describes the...
Harald Welte

Harald Welte

male, 30 years old (Germany)
Harald Welte (born in 1979) is a programmer, living in Berlin, Germany. Within the free software community, Welte is well known as a hacker of the...
Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh

male
Jeff Waugh (known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is very...
Jeremy Allison

Jeremy Allison

male (San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States)
Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of...