Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

Since his creation of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT. The W3Cdescribes itself as "an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public worktogether to develop Web standards.” Berners - Lee’s World Wide Web idea, as well as standards from the W3C, isdistributed freely with no patent or royalties due.

3) Linus Torvalds

In 1991 Linus Torvalds was a college student at the University of Helsinki. Starting with the basics of a UNIX system, hewrote the kernel — original code — for a new system for his x86 dubbed Linux (pronounced linn-ucks).Torvalds revealed the original source code for free — making among programmers — and users aroundthe world began making additions and now continue to tweak considered the leader in the practice of allowingusers to re-program their own operating systems. Currently, Torvalds Linux ringleader, coordinating thecode that volunteer programmers contribute to the kernel. He named after him and receivedhonorary doctorates fro m Stockholm University and University also featured in Time Magazine’s "60Years of Heroes.”

4) Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms”,*1+ is an American software freedom activist,and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system,and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free softwaremovement and, in O ctober 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation. Stallman’s life continues to revolve around thepromotion of free software. He works against movements like Digital Rights Management (or as he prefers, DigitalRestrictions Management) through organizations like Free Software Foundation and League for Programming Freedom.He has received extensive recognition for his work, including awards, fellowships and four honorary doctorates.

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