“The list was compiled by the editors of The Industry Standard,
starting with the results of an informal reader poll.
And [some of] the winners (and runners-up) are:
- …
- Most Influential Investor: Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft;
runner-up, David Wetherell Chairman, and CEO, CMGI
… - Most Important Software Developer: Bill Joy, chief
scientist, Sun Microsystems; runner-up, Linus Torvalds,
creator of Linux - Most Important Hardware Developer: Teiyu Goto, art director,
Sony Corp.; runner-up, John Rubenstein, senior vice president,
hardware engineering, Apple Computer - Most Important Government Policy Maker: Joel Klein, assistant
attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Antitrust
Division; runner-up, William Kennard, chairman, Federal
Communications Commission - Most Important Standard Setter: Tim Berners-Lee, director, The
World Wide Web Consortium, and principal research scientist, the
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; runner-up, Marc Andreessen,
chief technical officer, America Online - Most Influential Thinker: Alan Greenspan, chairman,
the Federal Reserve Board; runner-up, Eric Raymond,
president, the Open Source Initiative; author
…”