What connects this exhaustive chronological list?

1. Larry Wall
2. Miguel de Icaza
3. Brian Paul
4. Guido van Rossum
5. Lawrence Lessig
6. Alan Cox
7. Theo de Raadt
8. Andrew Tridgell
9. Ted Ts’o
10. Harald Welte

Cracked left, right and center.

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