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Stallman, Torvalds, Sakamura win Takeda Prize

Posted by michael on from the just-desserts dept.

hal_mit writes: "Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Ken Sakamura have been jointly awarded the first annual Takeda Foundation Prize, for "The origination and the advancement of open development models for system software - open architecture, free software and open source software". This is a major new recognition of the social value of free software and open source."

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  1. Excellant by SirSlud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is nice that there are concessions being made at this scale (such as these awards) that the open-source ideology definately has a place in a free-market world. Even nicer is that these awards do not seem to be tied to a singular (or multiple) corperate entity, unlike some other .com love-in awards and groups (like the webbies?)

    I'm more interested in seeing who will be getting these awards 5 years from now, once all the really obvious open-source prophets, kings and queens have gotten their past-due.

    --
    "Old man yells at systemd"
  2. And the swag is... by sphealey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    823,000 USD at today's interbank rate, per Oanda.com. Not too shabby.

    Was recently reading a biography of Enrico Fermi. The cash he received from the Nobel prize, plus the jewlery his wife was able to take with her to Sweden for the prize ceremony, allowed them to escape Italy to the US (his wife was Jewish).

    sPh