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# Tech People
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*"People are retarded."* --[Osho](osho.md)
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Here is a list of people notable in context of this wiki.
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- **[Alan Turing](turing.md)**: mathematician, father of [computer science](compsci.md), [gay](gay.md)
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- **[Alexandre Oliva](alexandre_oliva.md)**: [free software](free_software.md) advocate, founding member of [FSFLA](fsfla.md), maintainer of [Linux-libre](linux_libre.md)
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- **[Bill Gates](bill_gates.md)**: founder and CEO of [Micro$oft](microsoft.md), huge faggot
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- **[Dennis Ritchie](dennis_ritchie)**: creator of [C](c.md) language and co-creator of [Unix](unix.md)
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- **[Donald Knuth](knuth.md)**: computer scientist, Turing-award winner, author of the famous [Art of Computer Programming](taocp.md) books and the [TeX](tex.md) typesetting system
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- **[drummyfish](drummyfish.md)** (Miloslav Číž): creator of [LRS](lrs.md), a few programs and this wiki, anarcho-pacifist
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- **[Eric S. Raymond](esr.md)**: proponent of [open source](open_source.md), co-founder of [OSI](osi.md) and tech writer
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- **[Geoffrey Knauth](geoffrey_knauth.md)**: very [shitty](shit.md) president of [Free Software Foundation](fsf.md) since 2020 who embraces [proprietary](proprietary.md) software lol
- **[Jesus](jesus.md)**: prolly the most famous guy in history, had a nice teaching of [nonviolence](nonviolence.md) and [love](love.md)
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- **[Jimmy Wales](jimmy_wales.md)**: co-founder of [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md)
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- **[John Carmack](john_carmack.md)**: legendary game ([Doom](doom.md), [Quake](quake.md), ...) and [graphics](graphics.md) developer, often called a programming god
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- **[Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md)**: co-creator of [Unix](unix.md), [C](c.md) and [Go](go.md)
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- **[Larry Sanger](larry_sanger.md)**: co-founder of [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), also one of its biggest critics
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- **[Larry Wall](larry_wall.md)**: creator of [Perl](perl.md) language, linguist
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- **[Lawrence Lessig](lessig.md)**: lawyer, founder of [free culture](free_culture.md) movement and [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md), critic of [copyright](copyright.md)
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- **[Linus Torvalds](linus_torvalds.md)**: Finnish programmer who created [Linux](linux.md) and [git](git.md)
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- **[Luke Smith](luke_smith.md)**: [suckless](suckless.md) vlogger/celebrity
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- **[Melvin Kaye](mel.md) aka Mel**: genius old time programmer that appears in [hacker lore](hacker_culture.md) (*Story of Mel*)
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- **[Mental Outlaw](mental_outlaw.md)**: [suckless](suckless.md) vlogger/celebrity
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- **[Nina Paley](nina_paley.md)**: [female](woman.md) artist, one of the most famous proponents of [free culture](free_culture.md)
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- **[Noam Chomsky](noam_chomsky.md)**: linguist notable in theoretical [compsci](computer_science.md), anarchist
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- **[Óscar Toledo G.](toledo.md)**: programmer of tiny programs and [games](game.md) (e.g. the smallest [chess](chess.md) program), sadly [proprietary](proprietary.md) [winfag](windows.md)
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- **[Richard Stallman](rmd.md)**: inventor of [free software](free_software.md) and [copyleft](copyleft.md), founder of [GNU](gnu.md) and [FSF](fsf.md), hacker, also created [emacs](emacs.md)
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- **[Steve Jobs](steve_jobs.md)**: founder and CEO of [Apple](apple.md), huge retard and dickhead
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- **[Ted Kaczynski](ted_kaczynski.md)**: AKA the Unabomber, mathematician, primitivist and murderer who pointed out the dangers of modern technology
- **[Terry Davis](terry_davis.md)**: deceased schizophrenic genius, creator of [Temple OS](temple_os.md), became a tech [meme](meme.md)
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- **[Uriel](uriel.md)**: deceased member of the [suckless](suckless.md) community, philosophical advisor
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- **[viznut](viznut.md)** (Ville-Matias Heikkilä): creator or [countercomplex](countercomplex.md), minimalist programmer, inventor of [bytebeat](bytebeat.md), hacker, [collapse](collapse.md) "[prepper](prepping.md)"