I have been using free software for a long time now, completely free of charge, and I want to express my gratitude to the individuals who have made modern computing accessible. Their contributions have had a significant impact on both my personal and professional growth.
- Richard Stallman
- For the GNU Project, the GPL License, GNU Emacs and GNU GCC
- Linus Tordvald
- For Linux and Git
- Donald Knuth
- For TeX and the Computer Modern font
- Richard Hipp
- For SQLite and Fossil SCM
- John Carmack
- For open-sourcing Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake
But there are so many other persons who have contributed to the software world and need to be cited as well: Fabrice Bellard for the QEMU project and TinyCC, Daniel Stenberg for the cURL project, Antonio Escaño Scuri for IUP GUI, Marc Feeley for the Gambit Scheme project, as well as all the people who have contributed to free software.