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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. 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
  2. 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