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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. 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