10 Individuals who have contributed the most to FOSS
This is a followup to my previous post on the top 5 companies involved in enterprise Linux. enjoy!
10. Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and is most notable as the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who later founded Zend Technologies.
9. Michael Widenius
Ulf Michael Widenius, born March 3, 1962, in Helsinki, Finland, is the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and a founding member of the MySQL AB company.
8. Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.
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