Famous Contributions to the W3C Patent Policy Discussion
Compiled by Adam Warner (Email: adam@openphd.net)
Text at URL: http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy/Famous_Contributions
See: http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html#WarnerList

Listing:

Philippe Aigrain Head of Software Technologies sector, European Commission
H. Peter Anvin Linux developer
Jeremy Allison Samba guru
Christopher Blizzard Mozilla.org (and also cosigned by Mitchell Baker, Frank Hecker, Daniel Nunes, Dan Mosedale, Gervase Markham, Myk Melez, Brendan Eich, Dawn Endico, Asa Dotzler and Mike Shaver of Mozilla.org)
Jonathan Borden Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine and Chair of the ASTM E31.25 XML Healthcare Schemas (speaking for himself)
Tim Bray XML 1.0 Editor
David Brownell W3C/XML/Linux developer
Jeremy Carroll (not speaking for Hewlett-Packard--that's Scott Peterson's role as an author of the Working Draft)
Steven Champeon On behalf of the Web Standards Project
James Clark XSLT editor; nsgmls, groff, lots of other SGML/XML tools
Ken Coar (2) VP and director, Apache Software Foundation
Alan Cox Influential Linux kernel developer (and Red Hat employee)
Lars Eilebrecht Apache Software Foundation
John Gilmore Electronic Frontier Foundation, etc.
Mark Kraft LiveJournal.com
Dr. K. Lenz Professor of German Law and European Law, University Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo
Rob Levin Head of Operations, Open Projects Net
Chris Lilley (2) W3C (Graphics, Fonts)
Chris McDonough Zope Corporation
Chuck Mead President and co-founder, Linux Professional Institute
Gervase Markham (2) Mozilla Organization
Eben Moglen Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and General Counsel, Free Software Foundation
Andreas Mohr Linux, WINE developer
Russell Nelson Serves on the Board of directors of the Open Source Initiative
Steven R. Newcomb SGML/XML Architecture Pioneer
Sean B. Palmer Invited expert for the W3C WAI ERT, GL and PF Working Groups
Bruce Perens Founder of the Linux Standard Base, primary author of the Open Source Definition, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative and Software in the Public Interest, former Debian project leader, and long-time Linux developer (and also works at HP).
Theo de Raadt (2) (3) (4) (5) Founder and lead developer, OpenBSD
Glenn Randers-Pehrson (2) PNG, MNG, libpng, pngcrush, and ImageMagick developer
Eric S. Raymond President, Open Source Initiative
Tim O'Reilly O'Reilly & Associates
Branden Robinson (2) (3) Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Paul Rohr abisource.com (Project leaders of AbiWord Word Processor)
Michael Rose (2) Assoc. Prof. of Center for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark
Pavel Roskin Maintainer of GNU Midnight Commander and contributor to other GNU projects
Simon St. Laurent Author of "XML: A Primer", "Building XML Applications" and "Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical."
David Skoll Developer of rp-pppoe software
Richard Stallman (2) Free Software Foundation
Gavriel State WINE, Transgaming, ex-Corel Linux
Jay Sulzberger LXNY, New York's Free Computing Organization
Tim Sweeney Epic Games
David S. Touretzky Principal Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Tridgell President, Samba Team
Matthew Tuck Bugzilla developer
Daniel Veillard RedHat, ex-W3C
Florian Weimer OpenPGP
David Wheeler Institute for Defence Analyses
Dan York Co-founder of the Linux Professional Institute and current board member of Linux International
Gerald Lane IBM [1]
Alex Simons Microsoft Corporation