Richard Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman, also known by his initials rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users hav
Stallman in 2024
Stallman giving a speech on "Free Software and Your Freedom" at the biennale du design of Saint-Étienne (2008)
Stallman using his Lemote machine at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Stallman at Swatantra 2014, a conference organized by ICFOSS in Kerala, India
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
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…Carnegie Mellon's Mach microkernel in a project called GNU Hurd, which has yet to achieve the maturity level required for full POSIX compliance. In 1991, Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student studying at the University of Helsinki, used the GNU's development tools to produce the free monolithic Linux kernel. The existing…
Torvalds at the LinuxCon Europe 2014
Torvalds in 2002
Linus Torvalds (centre) receiving the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award from ICCE 2018 Conference Chair Saraju Mohanty (left) and IEEE President James A. Jefferies (right) at ICCE 2018 on 12 January 2018 in Las Vegas