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The list Open source people includes Linus Torvalds, James Gosling, Blake Ross, Jason Spisak and Eric Raymond. The list consists of 53 members and 3 sublists.

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philosophy about free redistribution and access to a product
  • 1.

    Mark Shuttleworth
    South African entrepreneur and space tourist (born 1973)
    Mark Shuttleworth
    Overview: Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu ...
    Date of birth: 18 September 1973
    Age: 51
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    British software engineers 27T
    Canonical Ltd. 4T
    Ubuntu (operating system) 10T
  • 2.

    Jason Spisak
    American actor and computer programmer
    Jason Spisak
    Overview: Jason Spisak (born August 29, 1973) () is an American actor, voice actor, producer and computer programmer in animation and video games, and producer and founding member of Blackchalk Productions. He is ...
    Date of birth: 29 August 1973
    Age: 51
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    YouTube channels launched in 2011 28T
    American male video game actors 798T
    20th-century American male actors 8,672T
  • 3.

    Linus Torvalds
    Creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel (born 1969)
    Linus Torvalds
    Overview: Linus Benedict Torvalds ( LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the main developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux ...
    Date of birth: 28 December 1969
    Age: 55
    Nationality: Finnish
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Torvalds family 4T
    American people of Swedo-Finnish descent 8T
    People from Dunthorpe, Oregon 4T
  • 4.

    James Gosling
    Canadian computer scientist
    James Gosling
    Overview: James Arthur Gosling, often referred to as "Dr. Java", OC (born May 19, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.
    Date of birth: 19 May 1955
    Age: 70
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering 69T
    Winners of The Economist innovation awards 12T
    Java (programming language) 14T
  • 5.

    Blake Ross
    American software developer
    Blake Ross
    Overview: Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software engineer who is best known for his work as the co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser with Dave Hyatt. In 2005, he was nominated ...
    Date of birth: 12 June 1985
    Age: 40
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century American Jews 7,983T
    20th-century American Jews 5,140T
    Gulliver Preparatory School alumni 15T
  • 6.

    Eric Raymond
    American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement
    Eric Raymond
    Overview: Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the ...
    Date of birth: 4 December 1957
    Age: 67
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Hackers 45T
    21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,477T
    American speculative fiction critics 71T
  • 7.

    Ian Murdock
    American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur
    Ian Murdock
    Overview: Ian Ashley Murdock (April28, 1973 – December 28, 2015) was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux ...
    Date of birth: 28 April 1973
    Date of death: 28 December 2015
    Age: 42 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    2015 deaths 9,624T
    Computer programmers who committed suicide 18T
    Linux people 32T
  • 8.

    Dan Kohn
    American entrepreneur (1972–2020)
    Dan Kohn
    Overview: Dan Kohn (November 20, 1972 – November 1, 2020) was an American serial entrepreneur and nonprofit executive who led the Linux Foundation’s Public Health initiative. He was formerly the executive ...
    Date of birth: 20 November 1972
    Date of death: 1 November 2020
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Entertainer
    Gender: Male
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  • 9.

    John D. Hunter
    Neuroscientist, creator of Matplotlib (1968–2012)
    John D. Hunter
    Overview: John D. Hunter (1968 – 2012) was an American neurobiologist and the original author of matplotlib.
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  • 10.

    Jeff Bonwick
    American software engineer
    Overview: Jeff Bonwick invented and led development of the ZFS file system, which was used in Oracle Corporation's ZFS storage products as well as startups including Nexenta, Delphix, Joyent, and Datto, Inc. Bonwick ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
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    Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
    Solaris people 8T
    Sun Microsystems people 62T
  • 11.

    Jane Silber
    American, Business
    Overview: Jane Silber is Chief Executive Officer at Canonical Ltd. since March 2010, replacing Mark Shuttleworth.
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Female
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    American women chief executives 579T
    American technology chief executives 773T
    Ubuntu (operating system) people 9T
  • 12.

    Adam Leventhal (programmer)
    American software engineer
    Adam Leventhal (programmer)
    Overview: Adam Leventhal (born 1979 in the United States) is an American software engineer, and one of the three authors of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 (Sun Microsystems' latest OS) which allows ...
    Date of birth: 1979
    Age: 46
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
     0    0
    Solaris people 8T
    Free software programmers 226T
    American computer scientists 1,375T
  • 13.

    Gervase Markham (programmer)
    British software engineer for the Mozilla Foundation
    Gervase Markham (programmer)
    Overview: Gervase Markham (21 June 1978 – 27 July 2018) was a British software engineer for the Mozilla Foundation, and was a lead developer of Bugzilla. He started contributing to the Mozilla project in 1999, and ...
    Date of birth: 1978
    Date of death: 27 July 2018
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
     0    0
    2018 deaths 9,212T
    Computer security specialists 60T
    2018 deaths 7,472T
  • 14.

    Benjamin Mako Hill
    Debian hacker, intellectual property researcher, activist and author
    Benjamin Mako Hill
    Overview: Benjamin Mako Hill (born December 2, 1980) is a free software activist, hacker, and author. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author ...
    Date of birth: 2 December 1980
    Age: 44
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    MIT Sloan School of Management faculty 127T
    Ubuntu (operating system) people 9T
    Debian people 15T
  • 15.

    Danese Cooper
    American advocate of open source software
    Danese Cooper
    Overview: Danese Cooper is an American programmer, computer scientist and advocate of open source software.
    Date of birth: 19 January 1959
    Age: 66
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    American Wikimedians 29T
    American women computer scientists 237T
    Wikimedia Foundation staff members 9T
  • 16.

    Bryan Cantrill
    American computer scientist
    Bryan Cantrill
    Overview: Bryan M. Cantrill (born 1973) is an American software engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition of Sun. He left Oracle on July 25, 2010 to become ...
    Date of birth: 1973
    Age: 52
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
     0    0
    American software engineers 159T
    Solaris people 8T
    Chief technology officers 171T
  • 17.

    Marc Ewing
    American businessman
    Overview: Marc Ewing (born May 9, 1969) is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. He was involved in the 86open project ...
    Date of birth: 9 May 1969
    Age: 56
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    Red Hat people 6T
    Red Hat 16T
    Carnegie Mellon University alumni 737T
  • 18.

    Theodore Ts'o
    American computer scientist, free software developer
    Theodore Ts'o
    Overview: Theodore (Ted) Yue Tak Ts'o (曹子德) (born 1968) is a software engineer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He is the primary developer ...
    Date of birth: 1968
    Age: 57
    Occupation: Computer Programmer
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    MIT School of Engineering alumni 716T
    Linux kernel programmers 23T
    Chief technology officers 171T
  • 19.

    Jamie Zawinski
    American programmer
    Overview: James Werner "Jamie" Zawinski (born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is an American hacker responsible for significant contributions to the free software projects ...
    Date of birth: 3 November 1968
    Age: 56
    Nationality: American
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    American male bloggers 573T
    American Internet celebrities 552T
    Netscape people 18T
  • 20.

    Bob Young (businessman)
    Canadian, Business
    Bob Young (businessman)
    Overview: Robert Young is a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding Red Hat Inc., the open source software company. He also owns the franchise for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League ...
    Date of birth: 19 January 1954
    Age: 71
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Business
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    Businesspeople from Hamilton, Ontario 22T
    Forge FC non-playing staff 7T
    Forge FC 9T
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