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

[Smith, Jeff]

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Subject: [sllug-members]: Pioneer day: Most important/influential
OpenSourcePioneers???

In honor of Pioneer day, I wanted to start a thread on who we think the 
most influential and important OpenSource Pioneers have been...
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Marc Christensen
http://blog.mecworks.com
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I would have to vote for

Eric Raymond, Alan Cox, Larry Wall, and Linus Torvalds.

I would like to cast an anti-vote for Richard Stallman.  To use Utah
Pioneer terminology he is the Mountain Meadow Massacre of Open Source.
Yes he is a part of the movement but IMHO he does more harm then good.  

Long live ERS and AC!

Jeff