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# Tech People
This is a list of notable people in technology.
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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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- **[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 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)**: [suckless ](suckless.md ) vlogger/celebrity
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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 )
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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, hacker, [collapse ](collapse.md ) "prepper"