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.”

HubertManne,
HubertManne avatar

no one should be billionaires.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

Gentoo1337,
@Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works avatar

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar

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

rockettaco37,
@rockettaco37@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry, but Stallman is an asshole…

idk837384,

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

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.

s_s,

Hummmmm…Lennart Pottering?

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

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

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.

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 ;)

blackn1ght,

None of them. I don’t care who they are, nobody should be a billionaire.

chumbalumber,

The point is, I think, if they were to become billionaires (say Bll Gtes leaves it to them in his will), then they wouldn’t be billionaires for long – their moral compasses (given they’ve spent their lives on non-profit causes) dictate that they’d likely put the money into other non-profit ventures.

d00phy,

Thats a fair point, but money changes people. That kind of money is obscene because it effectively puts you above most laws. I, too, would like to believe that the folks on this list would do only good with the money; but the longer the list, the more likely you witness the “Bad Change!” At the end of the day, most folks have families and other concerns outside of their public pursuits. That kind of money, while bringing its own problems, can get rid of just about any “normal people” worries (obviously not something like inoperable cancer)!

Altofaltception,

I would use [it] from a desire to do good. But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine

  • Gandalf, to Frodo, saying why he should not be given the one ring.
nitefox,

I thought the same exact thing lol

krondo,

Me. I use arch btw.

PeterPoopshit,

I fucking love arch.

cerement,
@cerement@slrpnk.net avatar

pfft … you just haven’t discovered our lord and saviour, NixOS

hellmo_luciferrari,

Haven’t felt the want to learn NixOS, but the idea did 8ntrigue me.

ILikeBoobies,

aur.archlinux.org/packages/nix-git

puppy,

I think they aren’t billionaires precisely because they worked for the good of the internet/knowledge.

If they indeed became billionaires that would imply that how they conduct themselves had completely been altered along with their core beliefs.

jeremyparker,

You literally can’t be a billionaire without exploiting people. If you’re not sharing profits equitably, you’re exploiting your work force; if you ARE sharing profits, then there’s no way you’ll become a billionaire.

Daefsdeda,

I heard of a shorter way of saying that: There is no ethical billion dollars.

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