RMS.
Who is RMS?
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, and original author of emacs and gcc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman, http://stallman.org/)
Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
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Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#22I've forwarded email from one of my accounts to another one of my accounts.
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#23DHH.
i've been on a race track with him and his lamborghini, but i was too busy to exchange an email at the time.
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is RMS?
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, and original author of emacs and gcc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman , http://stallman.org/ )
Also one of the few people who can be known simply by his initials. The only other two I can think of off the top of my head are ESR and GvR (Eric S. Raymond and Guido van Rossen, for those not in the know).
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#25Bruce Campbell wrote me back. Hail to the king, baby.
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#26My fiancé.
Must be an HN'er.
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#27pierre omidyar
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#28I got a response from Peter Norvig a few months back. I've also gotten responses from the some Danish members of parlaiment which you've probably never heard of.
John Graham Cumming (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc) beats me by many lengths though: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/09/hello-john-its-gordon-brown.html
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#29Greg Graffin from Bad Religion, Shepard Fairey (the Obama painting guy who, at the time, was the Andre the Giant guy). Ah, high school.
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#30Hmm. Probably Theo de Raadt. I use OpenBSD so he's important enough to me. ^.^