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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. Re:GNU/Linux and other BSD distributions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Contributed to OpenBSD, Linux Distributions and other BSDs"

    There is a way to understand it, and another way to misunderstand it.

  2. Re:GNU/Linux and other BSD distributions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I think the article meant it in the sense of "GNU/Linux and BSD distributions other than OpenBSD" - ie: NetBSD and FreeBSD, both of which implement features pioneered by OpenBSD.