"Open source is about people as much as it is products and companies, but the role of individuals in establishing the open source industry is often overlooked given headlines like 'IBM makes $100m investment in Linux.'
"To celebrate the role of the individual in establishing open source as the market force it is today, CBR decided to put together a list of the most important people in open source, and solicited the views of its Open Source Weblog to help compile it..."
