Zed A. Shaw wrote an article called “There Are No Famous Programmers” recently (as far as I can tell).
There Are No Famous Programmers
Really now?
Because I know a handful or three.
Steven Wozniac, Bill Gates, Dave Cutler, John Carmack, Grace Hopper, Paul Allen, Tim Berners-Lee, Anders Hejlsberg, Miguel de Icaza, Linus Torvalds, and Ada Lovelace, just to name a few.
It's even gone so far that people demand that we use the BSD license (or any license) that doesn't require credit for using your work.
No, this goes back to Stallman asking the BSD folks to remove the advertising clause so he could “steal” their work and put his GPL license on it, preventing them from reusing any code modification to their terms.
The famous programmers aren't really famous for programming anymore, but instead because they created some business or non-profit.
Linus Torvalds, Dave Cutler, Grace Hopper, etc.
Anyways, I don’t mean any ill will, but the post was interesting enough to talk about.
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