the fsf's board of governors includes amongst themselves professors at leading universities, senior engineers, and founders. a few high-profile activists, and software businessmen are admitted as well. currently on the board there is one high-profile activist, and one world-class, software-campaign strategist (windows 95, "et al."). there was once a majorly contributing programmer (mono and gnome) and businessman who lost favor badly. founders are also major software developers of the free software in the gnu project.