FOSS people

// List of some FOSS people here and their achievements

Richard Stallman :
 born March 16, 1953
 software freedom activist and computer programmer
 Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
 Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, which uses the principles of copyright law to preserve the right to use, modify and distribute free software, and is the main author of free software licenses which describe those terms, most notably the GNU General Public License (GPL), the most widely used free software license
 President of the Free Software Foundation
 
Linus Torvalds :
 born December 28, 1969
 principal creator behind the development of the Linux kernel
 He also created the distributed revision control system git.
 By the time he was 10, Linus Torvalds was programming his grandfather's Commodore VIC-20. At 21, he wrote the first version of the Linux operating system
 
Gabriell Weinberg
 Born January, 1979
 Gabriell Weinberg is the founder and chief executive officer of DuckDuckGo, a search engine that supports private browsing and offers personalized search results for its users.
 
Ian Murdock
 Born 28 April 1973
  known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
  He wrote the Debian Manifesto while a student at Purdue University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1996.
  He named Debian after his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn, and himself (Deb and Ian).
  
Doug Cutting
 an advocate and creator of open-source search technology
 He is also the creator of Hadoop. (Hadoop is an open-source framework that allows to store and process big data in a distributed environment across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.)
 
Miguel de Icaza
 born c. 1972
 best known for starting the GNOME
 GNOME is a desktop environment that is composed entirely of free and open-source software. 
 GNOME is part of the GNU Project.