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    big collage of people captioned, "the only people I wouldn't have minded being billionaires"
    names(and a bit of info, which is not included in the collage) of people in collage(from top left, row-wise):

    • Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub. perhaps the single-most important person in the scientific community regarding access to research papers.
    • Linus Torvalds, creator of linux kernel and git, courtesy of which we have GNU/Linux.
    • David Revoy, french artist famous for his pepper&carrot, a libre webcomic. inspiration for artists who are into free software movement
    • Richard Stallman, arch-hacker who started it all. founded the GNU project, free software movement, Emacs, GCC, GPL, concept of copyleft, among many other things. champions for free software to this day(is undergoing treatment for cancer at the moment).
    • Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VLC media player for 2 decades now
    • Ian Murdock, founder of Debian GNU/Linux and Debian manifesto. died too soon.
    • Alexis Kauffmann, creator of framasoft, a French nonprofit organisation that champions free software. known for providing alternatives to centralised services, notable one being framapad and peertube.
    • Aaron Swartz, a brilliant programmer who created RSS, markdown, creative commons, and is known for his involvement in creation of reddit. he also died too soon.
    • Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, a charityware.

    on the bottom right is the text reading, "plus the thousands of free software enthusiasts working tirelessly."

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    [–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

    Oh wow Ian Murdock commit suicide :(

    [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago
    [–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

    If we're putting developers on the list, it should be Fabrics Bellard or Graydon Hoare.

    [–] tygerprints@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    And even if it's contrary to popular opinion, I don't mind Bill Gates being a billionaire. I mean, I'd love to have invented the sole operating system for Windows and get all that money. My feeling is, if you make something that worthy you deserve to get paid over and over again.

    [–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    He stepped back from running his company and got into philanthropy. That's what all billionaires should do.

    Once you've taken enough, you've gotta work on how to give it all back.

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    [–] cerement 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    there’s still stories going around that Gates copied chunks of CP/M …

    [–] tygerprints@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

    I'm sure he didn't really invent the system out of whole cloth, most great inventions were copied from ideas of others.

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