Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds GNU and Linux

To describe the two men in this video as legends is to compliment the definition of the word "legend." Richard Stallman wrote the GNU Public License, which is the community foundation upon which open source projects like Linux were built. Mr. Stallman also wrote a text editor called Emacs, which is one of the most powerful programming and data processing applications ever developed for desktop computers. He is the president of the Free Software Foundation and has been an advocate of free access to software and data for decades. Stallman's influence has instructed the culture of computer programmers from the profession's earliest days.

Linus Torvalds is the author of the first Linux kernel for the Intel 80386 architecture, a project he undertook chiefly so he could work in a familiar environment on his PC. He released his work to other programmers on the Internet, and the result is probably the largest and most well-known community development project in the history of the Internet: the Linux operating system.