Bill Joy

Bill Joy on the set of Revenge of the Nerds

Bill Joy is a nice enough guy, but he's always doing something that pisses people off. Because of him, millions of people have died in relentless religious wars. He also founded one of the whiniest companies EVAR: Sun Microsystems for th3 sole purpose of destroying carbon-based life on earth

Bill is (un)known for rewriting the TCP/IP stack to make it functional, and for having Microsoft and Apple copypaste his code into their operating systems. Bill Joy wrote BSD while on the crapper one day -- and then he gave all the code to UC Berkeley. Because of him, everyone thought they could go out and build their own *nix, and as a result, most of the internets is being run by people who belong to some sort of server cult.

He also wrote csh, and ever since then, BSD users are always whining that engineers are ignoring their shells. And of course, they'll never give up csh, because it's tradition, damn it!

Vi is also his baby. Now Linux user groups are destroying themselves over whether vi is better than emacs.

It was once argued that Java wouldn't be the object of endless geek bickering because Bill Joy only partially created that. However, after a delay for a few years, there is now a Java vs. .Net vs Mono holy war. GNOME is close to being ravaged because Havoc Pennington insists on using Java.

Thus, the rule of them is that the intensity of geek zealotry is measured by how much Bill Joy has contributed to the project.

In 2000, Bill Joy produced lulz when he told Wired that humans would one day be replaced by robots.

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Bill Joy, proudly showing off his neckbeard for the camera.