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,...
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...
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...
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....
Rusty Russell

Rusty Russell

male
Paul "Rusty" Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate.
Bruce Perens

Bruce Perens

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
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...
Greg Stein

Greg Stein

male
Greg Stein (b. March 16, 1967 in Portland, OR), living in Palo Alto, CA, USA, is an engineering manager at Google. He has prior to that worked for...
Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton

male, 50 years old
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel...
Federico Mena

Federico Mena

male
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,...