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Tech People
"People are retarded." --Osho
Here is a list of people notable in context of this wiki.
- Alan Turing: mathematician, father of computer science, gay
- Alexandre Oliva: free software advocate, founding member of FSFLA, maintainer of Linux-libre
- Bill Gates: founder and CEO of Micro$oft, huge faggot
- 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
- drummyfish (Miloslav Číž): creator of LRS, a few programs and this wiki, anarcho-pacifist
- Eric S. Raymond: proponent of open source, co-founder of OSI and tech writer
- Geoffrey Knauth: very shitty president of Free Software Foundation since 2020 who embraces proprietary software lol
- Jesus: prolly the most famous guy in history, had a nice teaching of nonviolence and love
- Jimmy Wales: co-founder of Wikipedia
- John Carmack: legendary game (Doom, Quake, ...) and graphics developer, often called a programming god
- Ken Thompson: co-creator of Unix, C and Go
- Larry Sanger: co-founder of Wikipedia, also one of its biggest critics
- Larry Wall: creator of Perl language, linguist
- Lawrence Lessig: lawyer, founder of free culture movement and Creative Commons, critic of copyright
- Linus Torvalds: Finnish programmer who created Linux and git
- Luke Smith: suckless vlogger/celebrity
- Melvin Kaye aka Mel: genius old time programmer that appears in hacker lore (Story of Mel)
- Mental Outlaw: suckless vlogger/celebrity
- Nina Paley: female artist, one of the most famous proponents of free culture
- Noam Chomsky: linguist notable in theoretical compsci, anarchist
- Óscar Toledo G.: programmer of tiny programs and games (e.g. the smallest chess program), sadly proprietary winfag
- Richard Stallman: inventor of free software and copyleft, founder of GNU and FSF, hacker, also created emacs
- Steve Jobs: founder and CEO of Apple, huge retard and dickhead
- Ted Kaczynski: AKA the Unabomber, mathematician, primitivist and murderer who pointed out the dangers of modern technology
- Terry Davis: deceased schizophrenic genius, creator of Temple OS, became a tech meme
- Uriel: deceased member of the suckless community, philosophical advisor
- viznut (Ville-Matias Heikkilä): creator or countercomplex, minimalist programmer, inventor of bytebeat, hacker, collapse "prepper"