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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)
More on Lou Montulli from Wikipedia:

He was also responsible for several browser innovations, such as HTTP cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, and encouraging the implementation of animated GIFs into the browser.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by jacabado on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @10:10AM (#703697)
haha, the blink tag!! He is the responsible!
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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by jacquesm on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @06:33AM (#703418)
Isn't Tom Lane the guy behind JPEG or is that another Tom Lane ?
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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by luckystrike on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @07:31AM (#703479)
Yeah, he is the same guy.
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Re:Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL by kragen on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @02:25PM (#704288)
Rob and Ian also did a lot of work on GDB, binutils, stuff like that.
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