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Pioneers
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See also: People And Personae | Good Guys
There is a Google List and Portraits of Open Source Pioneers by Nikolai Bezroukov.
This page is a list of the Pioneers who played an important part in topics discussed on this wiki. It is not exhaustive. Many who are featured here are also Hackers.
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Current
- Tim Berners-Lee - Semantic Web
- Ian Clarke - Freenet
- Justin Frankel - Gnutella, Shoutcast, Winamp
- Jessica Litman - Digital Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Richard Stallman - GNU and Free Software
- Linus Torvalds - Linux creator
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Early
- Charles Babbage - developed the idea of computational machines
- Douglas C. Engelbart - Inventor of graphical user interface, hypertext, and networked computers
- Ada Lovelace - worked with Babbage, and is considered the first programmer
- J. C. R. Licklider - Early computer and network advocate
- Benoit Mandelbrot is the pioneer of the science into chaos
- Claude Shannon - father of information theory
- Immanuel Kant - philosophy, ethics and science pioneer
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Companies
- IBM - Standardization of the x86 platform, etc.
- Microsoft - MS-DOS | Windows - Because of a barebones business model where features were built based on demand, software of vastly greater user-functionality than previous peers became more commonly seen.
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