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.”

dipshit,

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

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

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.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, (edited )

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

s_s,

Hummmmm…Lennart Pottering?

whostosay,

Is it pronounced git or jit?

ExfilBravo,

I think it’s git as in “Go on now! Git!”

whostosay,

Lol I always say something similar in my head. What do I need to do to obtain this program? I jus’ need’a go’on n’ git it.

rockettaco37,
@rockettaco37@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry, but Stallman is an asshole…

merthyr1831,

Fundamentally speaking, none of these people would’ve ended up as billionaires for long. Most FOSS heavyweights already gave up their chance at being much more wealthy for their current roles. That being said, I’m pretty sure Linus and a few others here aren’t exactly short on cash

Gentoo1337,
@Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works avatar

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar

semnosao,

it’s precisely that they don’t build themselves up by exploring the less privileged and really create value to society that we view them as good people. No billionaire is self-made, no billionaire is good. Eat the rich, help your communities, be kind.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

The year Aaron Swartz died is the year that everything started going to shit.

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