[sllug-members]: Pioneer day: Most important/influential OpenSource Pioneers???

[Stuart Jansen]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 09:28 -0600, Marc Christensen wrote:
> In honor of Pioneer day, I wanted to start a thread on who we think the 
> most influential and important OpenSource Pioneers have been...

ESR for creating the term "Open Source" and marketing it. Sure there's
that whole glory hog thing, but nobody's perfect.

Eric Hahn, executive vice president and chief technology officer at
Netscape, and ever other Netscape exec. involved in the decision to
create the Mozilla project. (RIP Netscape)

The IBM executive who convinced IBM management to back Linux. Sadly, I
can't seem to find his name.

I did, however, stumble on this:
http://www.softpanorama.org/People/index.shtml

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
the results." -- Winston Churchill
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