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FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-as-in-freedom dept.

bkuhn writes "The FSF has posted a a call for nominations for the 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Get your nominations in to <award-nominations@gnu.org> by 15 October 2002."

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  1. He already did! by Longinus · · Score: 2, Informative

    "People such as Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall who have already received this or other awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

  2. I've nominated Per Bothner by joto · · Score: 3, Informative
    The man has been involved in pretty much anything in gcc (as in gnu compiler collection, not just gnu c compiler), gdb, and other parts of the toolchain. He has also written Kawa, and been involved in lot's of other free software projects.

    I'm not sure if he was the one who started cygnus support, but if he is, that is also something that should help him get the prize (where would free software be without cygnus today?).

  3. While we're on the topic of OSS/FS awards... by i_am_nitrogen · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't forget about Lindows's "Clicky Award..." Think what you will of Lindows, or LindowsOS, or the name "Clicky," but 50 grand donaed to Open Source software projects is 50 grand. Yeah, $50000US. Go forth and nominate!

    Oh, and where it says "we will add you to our mailing database," you can immediately unsubscribe from the Lindows web page.

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    A solution to the problem with music today
    1. Re:While we're on the topic of OSS/FS awards... by jbn-o · · Score: 2, Informative

      We were never on the topic of "OSS/FS awards". The award is being given "for the Advancement of Free Software". There is no mention of the other movement and for good reason. The event is being organized by the FSF and the GNU project which have no affiliation with the Open Source movement. Please take the time to read the press release and learn the difference between the two movements so you won't be confused and confuse others.

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  4. How about these guys?!? by tlambert · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about Paul Vixie, for maintaining the comp.sources archives for forever, so that they didn't get lost in the mists of time?

    How about Fred Fish, who pretty much single-handedly invented the compilation distribution disk?

    How about CSRG for BSD UNIX?

    How about Kernighan and Ritchie, for the C language?

    How about DECUS, for the DECUS tapes?

    How about Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, for inventing the modem, and giving the idea away?

    How about Ward Christensen again, for inventing the Xmodem protocol, and giving the software away?

    -- Terry

  5. Re:Gates by adamjaskie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, what happened is Linus was using Minix, and was frustrated by it's terminal emulator. He decided he did not wish to code a new one in Minix, (i don't remember why, something about limitations of the OS iirc) and instead wrote it in assembly, and just booted it off a floppy disk. He used that for a while, but then needed to transfer files, so he wrote in code to access a minix file system. After a while, it started to become more and more like an OS, and it eventually became an os when he got bash running on it, and accidentally wiped his minix partition. This is what i read in "Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary" by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. (a good book btw)

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