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Vote:Unsung Hero

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-never-get-the-creds-they-deserve dept.

The Unsung Hero is the guy that has done so much work to help make this Open Source thing great, but he just doesn't seem to end up getting his share of the spotlight. The nominees are Alan Cox, David Dawes, Donald Becker, Jordan K. Hubbard and Brian Paul. Vote for that you think hasn't got the credit he deserves for all his hard work.

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  1. Unsung indeed by QuMa · · Score: 3

    Unsung indeed, I don't even know who three of em are... (2,4&5)

    So for all other like me, here some short bio's.

    Alan Cox (not spelled Allen Cox) is a primary author of the
    linux networking stack, and generally does alot of work for
    Linux in a variety of different areas, from suggesting changes
    to VNC, to the MMU-less palm-pilot Linux port, to the gnome
    project. He is one of the most brilliant Linux developers I know,
    and has been the most helpful in enabling me to do my own
    Linux development (primarily in the area of PPP, L2TP, and
    Multilink PPP). By being brilliant, helpful, approachable, and
    available, he ...



    David Dawes was a PhD student in Theoretical Physics when he started playing around with X source code. He is still working in the
    same place, at the School of Physics, Sydney Uni, although now he is the Network Administrator. He works on XFree86 in his spare
    time.

    Did quite a lot of network drivers for linux. Most of the drivers for 3com cards are his.

    Hawaiian born, he is one of the big cheeses in the Free BSD
    project. He was one of the original founders, as well as the
    release coordinator. He lives with 14 cats and works at
    Walnut Creek CD-ROM. [14 Cats? That makes him cool by me!]

    Brian Paul is the original author of the mesa3d library. (No, it isn't called mesagl! No! Bad neuron!)


    I couldn't find out who abstain was, does anybody know?


    Sorry that some of the bios are short/incomplete, I either didn't know, didn't care or didn't have the time. Pick any three.