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.