Full threadghh·Fabrice Bellard [1,2] should be on this list. Author of QEMU and FFMPEG among other open source projects that have been useful to a lot of people. Also, author of jslinux [3].[1] http://bellard.org/[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard[3] http://bellard.org/jslinux/View on HN