This might help.
This is Linus Torvalds. Creator of the Linux kernel (basically the heart and brains of Linux) and owner of the Linux copyright.
This guy has 15 million dollars of networth and makes about 1 million dollars a year. He does not make his money straight from Linux, he actually works for a living.
In case you are dense, Linux gets it's name from Linus.
This guy, I would call a geek. Or Finnish.
Most people in-the-know are aware of Linus.
Allow me to introduce you to the man who claims to be literally 50% of the reason Linux exists.
Richard Stallman
Rich is the head of GNU. If you don't know what GNU is, it is a group of people who insist on calling Linux,
GNU/Linux (pronounced Ga-nu
slash Lin-ux...yes you say slash outloud).
You may ask, why do they insist on calling it GNU/Linux? Because back when Linux didn't fucking matter, it was just GNU software and the Linux kernel that people used.
If you really care on why this was the case refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversyLinus prefers calling it "Linux" because that's what everyone else calls it. Plus, he probably feels like an asshole when he has to say "slash" outloud to appease Stallman.
Did I mention that Stallman refuses interviews if the interviewee doesn't refer to it as GNU/Linux?
Did I also mention that he refuses to use web browsers because the HTTP protocol isn't free enough for him?
http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I
also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
Note that English is his first language and it doesn't matter how I read that last sentence, it will forever scar my patience.
On first glance, you can already see something different between the two guys anyway. One of them looks white as FUCK. The other one is basically a bum. If he just looked like a bum, I would have said that, but no, the man is a fucking bum who lives in MIT.
The man is in every sense of the word "The most disgusting thing ever"
Here is a video of Richard Stallman walking around bare feet probably smelling like moldy something. In the video, he picks something off his bare feet, puts it in his mouth, and chews on it for the rest of the video in front of people.
Here's another video where he sings his own Free Software Song.
Am I getting my point clear yet?
He also acts like a total sperglord by attacking OpenBSD on the basis that it is less "free as in freedom" (not "free as in beer") than "GNU/Linux".
http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/That_Which_We_Call_FreeNearly every time Richard Stallman speaks, it is hypocritical, wrong, paranoid, or just awful.
Recently he was in the news for saying that
he was glad that Steve Jobs was gone.
http://www.macgasm.net/2011/10/07/richard-stallman-steve-jobs-glad/He also calls open source software a plague and a twisted version of his vision.
So, yeah, this is definitely a nerd.