less_retarded_wiki/people.md

# Tech People

This is a list of notable people in technology.

- **[Bill Gates](bill_gates.md)**: founder and CEO of [Micro$oft](microsoft.md)
- **[Dennis Ritchie](dennis_ritchie)**: creator of [C](c.md) language and co-creator of [Unix](unix.md)
- **[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
- **[drummyfish](drummyfish.md)**: founder of [LRS](lrs.md) and this wiki
- **[Eric S. Raymond](esr.md)**: proponent of [open source](open_source.md), co-founder of [OSI](osi.md) and tech writer
- **[John Carmack](john_carmack.md)**: legendary game ([Doom](doom.md), [Quake](quake.md), ...) and [graphics](graphics.md) developer
- **[Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md)**: co-creator of [Unix](unix.md), [C](c.md) and [Go](go.md)
- **[Larry Wall](larry_wall.md)**: creator of [Perl](perl.md) language, linguist
- **[Linus Torvalds](linus_torvalds.md)**: Finnish programmer who created [Linux](linux.md) and [git](git.md)
- **[Luke Smith](luke_smith)**: [suckless](suckless.md) vlogger/celebrity
- **[Mental Outlaw](mental_outlaw.md)**: [suckless](suckless.md) vlogger/celebrity
- **[Noam Chomsky](noam_chomsky.md)**: linguist notable in theoretical [compsci](computer_science.md), anarchist
- **[Richard Stallman](rmd.md)**: inventor of [free software](free_software.md) and [copyleft](copyleft.md), founder of [GNU](gnu.md) and [FSF](fsf.md), also created [emacs](emacs.md)
- **[Steve Jobs](steve_jobs.md)**: founder and CEO of [Apple](apple.md)
- **[Ted Kaczynski](ted_kaczynski.md)**: AKA the Unabomber, mathematician, primitivist and murderer who pointed out the dangers of technology
- **[Terry Davis](terry_davis.md)**: schizophrenic genius creator of [Temple OS](temple_os.md), became a tech [meme](meme.md)
- **[Uriel](uriel.md)**: deceased member of the [suckless](suckless.md) community, philosophical advisor