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FSF Awards Guido van Rossum For Python

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations dept.

bkuhn writes: "The FSF today bestowed its fourth annual Award for the Advancement of Free Software upon Guido van Rossum . The two other finalists were L. Peter Deutsch and Andrew Tridgell." Developing Python seems like a good reason :)

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  1. more awards blather by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    in this respect, hollywood and the open-source world has this much in common. every company and their mother has an award ceremony to congratulate themselves for yet another well done year. it's so tired, like guido even needs an award to validate his work in the eyes of others.

    i don't know anybody who actually gives a rat ass about these awards bullshit. except for the oscars maybe because of all the hype, it's all really meaningless.

  2. Speaking of Ghostscript by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ... and related technologies. Just out of curiosity, is anyone working on a Display PDF emulator? That's one of the technologies that I've found interesting that Apple embraced in OS X.

    I haven't decided if Display PDF is a good idea or not, but it would be interested to play around with it without having to spring for a Mac*.

    *I've sworn a sacred oath never to give Apple any of my money until they change their ways (closed systems, stupid lawsuits over "look and feel", high prices, etc).

    --
    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  3. yeah, but by global_diffusion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... did he write Perl? I don't think so.

    Next!

    (joking of course. props to Guido)