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 Linus, born in Helsinki Finland, is the son of a journalist family, swedish-speaking family. Tovalds graduated with a master's degree from University of Helsinki with a thesis titled "Linux: A Portable operating system". The Linux operating system kernel, developed for x86 architecture has contributed to a multi-billion industry which also further enabled the advancement of the open source software development.
He currently lives in San Jose, California together with his wife, 3 daughters and a cat. He made a fortune of 20 million dollars from the stock options presented to him by Red Hat and VA Linux, in gratidue for his creation.
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 Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he settled in Pennsylvania in 1971. His main contributions as a developer are the maintenance of the fetchmail client and gpsd. He also contributed to GNU ncurses and Emacs editing modes. He was reputed as the maintainer of the "Jargon File", a glossary for hacker slang. After the publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazzard" in 1997, he became one of the most recognized and controversial characters in open source movements. He is well known for the aphorism "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", which he coins as Linus's law. His fame is shadowed by racist and discriminatory comments against afro-americans and muslims. |
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 Richard Matthew Stallman (often abbreviated as RMS) was born in 1953 in New York City, New York. He is a software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU project he started the free software movement, and in October 1985 set up the Free Software Foundation. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.[4] Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely-used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger. |
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