See also: People And Personae | Pioneers | Real Hackers
Just as “guy” (as with Bad Guy) is not meant to describe the masculine, “boy” is not meant to describe either youth or masculinity. “Big boy” is commonly used with a touch of irony, to recognize maturity and ability, and frequently to describe awe or even fear.
This page is a central launching-point for major influencers, be they corporations or organizations, which are spoken of within this wiki. This page attempts to centralize pages which wouldn’t otherwise be found in pioneers or the like, and frequently duplicates links found in such centralized pages.
- Adobe
- AMD
- America Online – (AOL)
- American National Standards Institute – (ANSI)
- Apple
- Business Software Alliance – (BSA)
- The Center for Democracy and Technology – (CDT)
- Compaq
- EBay
- Electronic Frontiers Foundation – EFF)
- Federal Communications Commission – (FCC)
- Free Software Foundation – (FSF)
- GNU’s Not Unix – (GNU)
- Hewlett Packard – (HP)
- International Business Machines – (IBM)
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority – (IANA)
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – (ICANN)
- International Federation of the Phonographic Industry – (IFPI)
- Intel
- Internet Society – (ISOC)
- Internet Software Consortium – (ISC)
- International Standards Organization – (ISO)
- Macromedia
- Microsoft – (MS)
- Nintendo
- Motion Picture Association of America – (MPAA)
- Motorola
- Novell
- Open Source Initiative – (OSI)
- Recording Industry Association of America – (RIAA)
- Sony
- SourceForge
- Sun Microsystems
- Yahoo
- Web Standards Project – (WASP)
- World Intellectual Property Organization – (WIPO)
- World Wide Web Consortium – (W3C)
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