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Agenda Setters 2007

No. 40 - Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman, GNU founder

Position: 40    Last year: Not ranked

Why? Open source and anti-plagiarist crusader

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Richard Stallman reappears on the Agenda Setters list after a brief absence in 2006.

Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Stallman reappears in the rankings for bringing popular free software tools into the public domain, developing the open-source software replacement for Unix and campaigning against software plagiarists.

Outspoken as ever, Stallman has also spent considerable time over the past 12 months supporting local efforts in Cuba to bring open source to the country's government.

The panel decided that this "unusual man", who comes up again and again in the Agenda Setters list, should reappear in the rankings for his huge following and ongoing campaigning for the Cuban open-source cause.

Closest Rivals

  1. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder
  2. Premal Shah, Kiva president
  3. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University law professor
  4. Paul Otellini, Intel CEO
  5. Bruce Perens, open source advocate
  6. Richard Stallman, GNU founder
  7. Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing editor
  8. Charles Dunstone, Carphone Warehouse CEO
  9. Bruce Schneier, security expert
  10. Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel initiator
  11. Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media CEO

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  2. Management
  3. Networks
  4. Software
  5. IT Services
  6. Hardware
  1. Verticals
  2. Public Sector
  3. Financial Services
  4. Retail & Leisure
Agenda Setters Past

Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll in years past:

Quotable

"Blogging's definitely got to the point where there're enough mainstream consumers watching it for the top bloggers to be regarded as agenda setters."
Michael Smith,
Agenda Setters panellist

"Open source gets more important rather than being something that will get squeezed out of the enterprise."
Simon Briskman,
Agenda Setters panellist



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