Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. Profiled in Steven Levy's 1984 book, Hackers: the Heros of the Computer Revolution as the Last True Hacker, he started the Free Software movement in the 1980s and is considered by many to be the father of Free Software/Open Source.
Linus Torvalds, initial author and top maintainer of the Linux kernel, and possibly the most respected figure in the community.
Larry Wall, author of the popular Perl language.
Eric Raymond, author of the famous paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and responsible for the popularization of the name Open Source
Bruce Perens, editor of the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the Open Source Definition, the former considered by the community as the basic law.
Alan Cox, active contributor and maintainer of the Linux kernel.
Guido van Rossum, author of the Python language.
Miguel de Icaza, founder of GNOME.
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