Vote for your IT greats
A one-time hacker who has latterly become a political activist
might sound an unlikely candidate for inclusion in any pantheon of
IT greats. But what if that hacker was Richard Stallman, founder of
the free software movement and author of the GNU General Public
Licence, the world's most widely used free software licence?
In the 1970s and 1980s Stallman was a prolific programmer for
his open source GNU Project. Since then, he has spent most of his
time as a political campaigner, advocating free software and
campaigning against software patents and the expansion of copyright
law.
As part of Computer Weekly's 40th anniversary celebrations, we
are asking readers to vote for the people, technologies and
organisations that have made the biggest difference in the four
decades since Computer Weekly was first published. So if Richard
Stallman is one of your IT greats, let us know at
www.computerweekly.com.
Vote now at:
www.computerweekly.com/ITgreats