@ryo @MirceaKitsune @enjoyer @yes Stallman is 69 (nice), he's too old to be gen X. Linus Torvalds is gen X.

And the previous one is the silent generation. And the one before that was the WW2 generation, the "greatest generation". Presumably called that because they were the biggest suckers for actually fighting in that war. A lot of them would agree.