which ones do you think I missed?

image transcription:

big collage of people captioned, “the only people I wouldn’t have minded being billionaires”
names(and a bit of info, which is not included in the collage) of people in collage(from top left, row-wise):

  • Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub. perhaps the single-most important person in the scientific community regarding access to research papers.
  • Linus Torvalds, creator of linux kernel and git, courtesy of which we have GNU/Linux.
  • David Revoy, french artist famous for his pepper&carrot, a libre webcomic. inspiration for artists who are into free software movement
  • Richard Stallman, arch-hacker who started it all. founded the GNU project, free software movement, Emacs, GCC, GPL, concept of copyleft, among many other things. champions for free software to this day(is undergoing treatment for cancer at the moment).
  • Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VLC media player for 2 decades now
  • Ian Murdock, founder of Debian GNU/Linux and Debian manifesto. died too soon.
  • Alexis Kauffmann, creator of framasoft, a French nonprofit organisation that champions free software. known for providing alternatives to centralised services, notable one being framapad and peertube.
  • Aaron Swartz, a brilliant programmer who created RSS, markdown, creative commons, and is known for his involvement in creation of reddit. he also died too soon.
  • Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, a charityware.

on the bottom right is the text reading, “plus the thousands of free software enthusiasts working tirelessly.”

s_s,

Hummmmm…Lennart Pottering?

pewgar_seemsimandroid, (edited )

if Arnold Swartz was a billionaire lemmy wouldn’t exist and most likely kbin also

MargotRobbie,
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As funny as the thought of Stallman becoming a billionaire is, ultimately, like all celebrities, these people are strangers to the overwhelming majority of you. Parasocial relationships are never healthy, and the result of being put on a pedastal is that they became idols and symbols and ceases being people.

And I don’t think that’s what they would have wanted.

After all, the only good billionaire is a Barbi-onaire.

dipshit,

Would these people actually be billionaires though? Seems to me many of them would put that money to good use instead.

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

Ooh, I’ve met three of them on this list. Jean-Baptiste was the best though ;)

m13,

None of these people could ever be billionaires. Only a sociopathic, narcissistic mind could ever do what it takes to hoard a billion dollars. Capitalism rewards having a lack of empathy for other people.

ultra,

Cory Doctorow

solrize,

on the bottom right is the text reading, “plus the thousands of free software enthusiasts working tirelessly.”

We don’t work tirelessly. We get tired all the time, but keep at it as well as we can.

Cannacheques,

Rip Swartz man, the idea of all human knowledge from how to change your tire to how to put out a fire being monetised is legitimately scary

krimsonbun,

yeah, no

intensely_human,

i.pinimg.com/…/15f43de9c186ea8d1f9f6c4b5b8c49a7.j…

jol,

I would be OK if the guy that made Stardew Valley became a billionaire.

tastysnacks,

If we’re putting developers on the list, it should be Fabrics Bellard or Graydon Hoare.

possiblylinux127,

I think you need to make money to be a billionaire.

qjkxbmwvz,

Patrick Volkerding could use a shout-out — founder, maintainer, and benevolent dictator-for-life of Slackware.

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