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Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai 2010<br />

Since his creation of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT. The W3C<br />

describes itself as "an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work<br />

together to develop Web standards.” Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web idea, as well as standards from the W3C, is<br />

distributed freely with no patent or royalties due.<br />

3) Linus Torvalds<br />

In 1991 Linus Torvalds was a college student at the University of Helsinki. Starting with the basics of a UNIX system, he<br />

wrote the kernel — original code — for a new system for his x86 PC that was later dubbed Linux (pronounced linn-ucks).<br />

Torvalds revealed the original source code for free — making him a folk hero among programmers — and users around<br />

the world began making additions and now continue to tweak it. Linux is considered the leader in the practice of allowing<br />

users to re-program their own operating systems. Currently, Torvalds serves as the Linux ringleader, coordinating the<br />

code that volunteer programmers contribute to the kernel. He has had an asteroid named after him and received<br />

honorary doctorates from Stockholm University and University of Helsinki. He was also featured in Time Magazine’s "60<br />

Years of Heroes.”<br />

4) Richard Stallman<br />

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms”,*1+ is an American software freedom activist,<br />

and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system,<br />

and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software<br />

movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation. Stallman’s life continues to revolve around the<br />

promotion of free software. He works against movements like Digital Rights Management (or as he prefers, Digital<br />

Restrictions Management) through organizations like Free Software Foundation and League for Programming Freedom.<br />

He has received extensive recognition for his work, including awards, fellowships and four honorary doctorates.<br />

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