Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL

Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by kragen on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:16AM (#703255)

Other people said it, but you said it better: "his rotten public image, which he carefully crafted himself: crass, erratic, unprofessional, needy and infantile."

But yeah, there are a lot of people who are little-known but who have written a lot of the software we use every day, and even successfully built communities around it. Ian Lance Taylor, Rob Savoye, tom lane, Lou Montulli (!), Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Raymond Hettinger, Margo Seltzer, D. Richard Hipp, Ben Tilly, a cast of thousands.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by luckystrike on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @06:01AM (#703387)

Thanks for the list. And for people like me who don't know much about (some of) them, here is a primer:

  Ian Lance Taylor - gcc maintainer, creator of GNU UUCP
  Rob Savoye - primary developer of Gnash
  Tom Lane - member of the core PostgreSQL development team,  standardization of JPEG
  Lou Montulli - co-authored Lynx, came up with HTTP Cookies and HTTP Proxying
  Jacob Kaplan-Moss - Django maintainer
  Raymond Hettinger - core developer for Python
  Margo Seltzer - Berkley DB architect
  D. Richard Hipp - architect and primary author of SQLite
  Ben Tilly - developed a bunch of Perl modules

Edit: Added standardization of JPEG to Tom Lane's intro.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by petercooper on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @09:52AM (#703656)