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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. 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).

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    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.