[central_va]

Good thing these guy reached their technical peak before an H-1b visa grunt would have put them out on the street.

[aynrandfreak]

Good article, thanks!

[relictele]

Berners-Lee is leading the Alliance for Affordable Internet, a non-profit backed by the likes of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, that's trying to make broadband Internet access more affordable for everybody in the world

In other words, he's trying to spend other people's money i.e. he's a Marxist.

[texas booster]

BI’s list:

Linus Torvalds
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Donald Knuth
Brenden Eich
Solomon Hykes
Mark Zuckerberg
David Heinemeier Hansson
Richard Stallman
Bram Cohen
James Gosling
Bjarne Stroustrup
John Carmack

So how many do you know by name, without a search?

[bigbob]

Even mentioning Zuckerberg’s name in the same room as this list is an insult to all others

[Gideon7]

What about the inventor of Unix and C, David Kernighan? Last time I checked he was still working.

[catnipman]

Mark Zuckerberg never was much of a programmer, and even if he was, he isn’t even in the same universe as the rest of the programmer rock stars in that list.

[Calvin Cooledge]

Linus Torvalds made a contribution by popularizing Linux. But his technical contribution is not as monumental as people think. Linux is a clone of Unix. Torvalds did not have to come up with a spec or a design. He copied Unix for that.

And he also built upon the Minix operating system developed by Andrew Tenenbaum. Minix was also a clone of Unix. So much so that when a colleague and I developed Trusted Minix for NSA and had to document even the core Minix code we did not change, we simply used Fundamentals of the Unix Operating System as a reference.

[Salman]

All white. A sizable fraction of them Jewish.

Something in the water? :)