| |  | (David) Adam Smith (born June 15, 1965), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since... |  | Richard Bannister is a programmer of emulation software for the Mac OS X platform. He currently maintains twenty-eight different emulators,... |  | Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and... |  | 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... |  | Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom... |  | Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in... |  | Gene Kan (1976 - 2002) was a peer-to-peer file-sharing programmer who was among the first programmers to produce an open-source version of the... |  | Allison Randal is co-chair of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention and Energy Innovation Conference . Her first geek career was as a research... |  | Barbara A. Daniels has more than 25 years of business administration experience at the executive level, with over 17 years in the nonprofit sector. | |
