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Tech People
This is a list of notable people in technology.
- Bill Gates: founder and CEO of Micro$oft
- Dennis Ritchie: creator of C language and co-creator of Unix
- Donald Knuth: computer scientist, Turing-award winner, author of the famous Art of Computer Programming books and the TeX typesetting system
- Eric S. Raymond: proponent of open source, co-founder of OSI and tech writer
- Ken Thompson: co-creator of Unix, C and Go
- Larry Wall: creator of Perl language, linguist
- Linus Torvalds: Finnish programmer who created Linux and git
- Luke Smith: suckless vlogger/celebrity
- Noam Chomsky: linguist notable in theoretical compsci, anarchist
- Richard Stallman: inventor of free software and copyleft, founder of GNU, also created emacs
- Steve Jobs: founder and CEO of Apple
- Terry Davis: schizophrenic creator of Temple OS, Internet meme