Real Name: Richard M Stallman
Nick Name: Richard M Stallman
Birth Date: 16 March 1953
Birth Place: Manhattan, New York, USA.
Ø In 1983,Richard Stallman, launched the GNU Project to write a complete operating system free from constraints on use of its source code.
Ø In 1989, the first version of the GNU General Public License was published. A slightly updated version 2 was published in 1991.
Ø In 1989, some GNU developers formed the company Cygnus Solutions.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/viki/GNU _manifesto
Real Name: AKA Linus Benedict Torvalds
Nick Name: Linus Torvalds
Birth: 28 December 1969
Birthplace: Helsiniki Finlandh
Birthplace: Helsiniki Finlandh
Religion: Atheist
Occupation: Computer Programmer
Occupation: Computer Programmer
Nationality: Finland
Executive summary: Created the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS
Executive summary: Created the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS
Ø The Linux kernel, started by Linus Torvalds, was released as freely modifiable source code in 1991.
Ø The BSD lawsuit was settled out of court in 1993,FreeBSD and NetBSD (both derived from 386BSD).
Real Name: Matthias Ettrich
Nick Name: Matthias Ettrich
Birth: 14 June 1972
Birth place: Berlin Germany
Occupation: Software Engineer
Employer: Nokia
Know for: KDE and LYX
• KDE was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich. At the time, he was troubled by the inconsistencies in UNIX applications.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/viki/matthias Ettrich
Real Name: Eric Raymond
Nick Name: Eric Raymond
Other names: ESR
Birth:4 December 1957 (age 53)
Birth Place:Boston, Massachusetts
Residence:Pennsylvania
Nationality:American
Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania
Occupation: Software developer, author Website.
Ø In 1997,Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the hacker community and free software principles. The paper received significant attention in early 1998 and was one factor in motivating Nestcape Communications Corporation to release their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software . This code is today better known as Mozilla firefox and Thunderbird.
References: http://www.catb.org/~esr/
In August 1999, Sun Microsystems released the StarOffice,office suite as free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License.The free software version was renamed OpenOffice.org,and coexists with StarOffice.
References: http://www.sun.com/index.html
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