On this page we list only a small fraction of the persons to be credited for all the technology in use on our servers and in the Internet. Generally we mention only the original author and eventually some prominent contributor.

Awstats:
Laurent Destailleur
Bash:
Brian Fox, Chet Ramey. Original author of the “Bourne Shell”: Stephen Richard Bourne, 1976.
CGI:
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1993 NCSA Team, Ken Coar et.al.
Dash:
Kenneth Almquist, Herbert Xu.
DNS:
Paul Mockapetris
Debian:
Ian Murdock
Dovecot:
Timo Sirainen
Dropbear:
Matt Johnston
ext4:
Theodore Ts’o. Stems from ext/ext2/ext3, Rémy Card and others.
Fail2ban:
Cyril Jaquier and over 100 others.
FastCGI:
Open Market, Inc., 1996.
Git:
Linus Torvalds, Junio Hamano.
Grub:
Erich Boleyn
GNU:
Richard Stallman, FSF - Free Software Foundation and the community.
IMAP:
Mark Crispin
LDAP:
Tim Howes, Steve Kille, Colin Robbins and Wengyik Yeong, Mark Wahl.
libresolv:
ISC - Internet Systems Consortium, Paul Mockapetris, Paul Vixie and much more.
Linux:
Linus Torvalds and thousand of colaborators.
logrotate:
Erik Troan, Preston Brown, Jan Kaluza.
multilog:
Dan Bernstein
OpenLDAP:
Kurt D. Zeilenga.
OpenSSL:
Eric Young, Tim Hudson, Ralf S. Engelschall.
OpenVZ:
Alexander Tormasov, Sergey Beloussov, 1999. Since then thousands of contributors.
Qmail:
Dan Bernstein
Qmail-LDAP:
André Oppermann
SMTP:
Jon Postel, 1982
socklog:
Gerrit Pape
SSH:
Tatu Ylönen. Björn Grönvall, OpenBSD
Syslog:
Eric Allman
Rsync:
Andrew Tridgell, Paul Mackerras, Wayne Davison.
tinydns:
Dan Bernstein
Tramp:
FSF - Free Software Foundation
VMware:
VMware, Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Ellen Wang and Edouard Bugnion.
Xen:
Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Ian Pratt.
XFS:
Silicon Graphics, Red Hat.