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Category: Unsung Hero

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-for-the-whole-family dept.

As we all know, there are certain people who have achieved a lot of fame in the Open Source world. This award isn't for them. This award is designed to put ten grand into the pocket of someone who has contributed to the open source movement in a significant way but has never gotten the spotlight that they deserve. Talk about it. And Nominate the person who deserves it most.

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  1. david dawes, founder and president of xfree86 by maffew · · Score: 3

    definitely a hero, definitely unsung. he's been working on xfree86 for eight years. we all use X. although you'd really want to give the gong to all four founders of the project.

  2. Doug MacEachern by Spud+Zeppelin · · Score: 3

    Without his work on mod_perl, many of the open-source-based solutions on the web wouldn't be possible -- among them, the site you're reading now....



    This is my opinion and my opinion only. Incidentally, IANAL.

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