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- Dan Farmer - Creator of COPS and SATAN Security Scanners
- Stuart Feldman - creator of make, author of Fortran 77 compiler, part of original group that created Unix
- David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo!
- Brad Fitzpatrick - creator of memcached, Livejournal and OpenID
- Andrew Fluegelman - author PC-Talk communications software; considered a co-creator of shareware
- Brian Fox - creator of Bash, Readline, GNU Finger, Meta-HTML
- Martin Fowler - Creator of Dependency Injection pattern of software engineering, a form of Inversion of control
- Jim Fruchterman - founder of Arkenstone (now part of Freedom Scientific) and Benetech, created scanners for blind people
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