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Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the big-fancy-awards dept.

Caligari writes "Richard Stallman, presents this year's award to Theo de Raadt. "For recognition as founder and project leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. Theo de Raadt's work has also led to significant contributions to GNU/Linux and other BSD distributions. Of particular note is Theo's work on OpenSSH. Theo's leadership of OpenBSD, his selfless commitment to Free Software and his advancement of network security, were cited by this year's award committee.""

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  1. BSD and FSF? by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 1, Funny

    FSF people giving an award to a BSD guy? Delete this new, it's not 1st April tooday!

  2. Theo responds in typical BSD fashion... by Mr+Ambersand · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..by refusing the award on the grounds that the GNU license "isn't free enough". ;-)

    --
    "Your admirers in the street
    Got to hoot and stamp their feet
    in the heat from your physique" -King Crimson
  3. Watch out! by JM · · Score: 2, Funny

    Eventually, Stallman is going to ask us to call it Gnu/OpenBSD ;-)

  4. Re:Linus Torvalds? by fanatic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Not until he changes his name to GNU/Linus.

    JUST KIDDING!

    --
    "that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody
  5. Award ceremony transcript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Richard: "We have gathered here to honor another Free Software giant. Ladies (hello you two geeky, but quite cute girls in the back) and gentlemen, I hereby present this award to Theo de -"
    Theo: "What?! An award??? I thought we were going to discuss you ditching GNU/Hurd and adopting OpenBSD as its replacement?! You got me here under false pretense, I can't fucking believe this!!!"
    Richard: "Well, we knew you wouldn't have come otherwise, so I -"
    Theo: "Do you realize you robbed me out of a whole day of code auditing?! Do you?! That's it, I'm suing!"
    Richard: "What do you mean, you don't even have an account and I don't give out root - "
    Theo: "Ohhh, veeery funny! I'm taking you to the bank for everything you've got, buddy!"
    Richard: "Well, then I should just give you the $2.49 because that's all I got."
    Theo: "No, here's $10, now go and have that beard trimmed for the love of everything you GNU! You look like a damned hobo!"
    Richard: "Well, actually, purely technically speaking, I am as free as a hobo, except that I smell nice."

  6. Ñu by Santana · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its logo says it all, it's a ñu.

    For those that doesn't know how to pronounce 'ñ', it's like 'gn' in cognac or Avignon.

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    The best way to predict the future is to invent it
  7. to help celebrate by xmp_phrack · · Score: 3, Funny

    i'm going to release an OpenBSD remote root