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Nominations for the FSF 2005 Free Software Award

Posted by timothy on from the shuttleworth dept.

The Free Software Foundation has posted a call for nominations for their 2005 Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Last year's winner was Theo de Raadt. Previous winners are ineligible, so who's left who hasn't already won?

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  1. Ron Minnich by DeathPenguin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The LinuxBIOS dude! What better nominee than someone who has helped so much in bringing free software to a traditionally proprietary area of the computer?

  2. Who's left? by Dr.+Photo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "[...] so who's left who hasn't already won?"

    "Who's left"?

    Was the array of free software developers and projects statically allocated at the beginning of time? Could there ever possibly be, just maybe, someone new?

  3. ESR and Politics in F/OSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wouldn't call fetchmail "little-used". Most mutt users I know use it. While he hasn't donated as much code as some, he has made good contributions to ncurses.

    Like it or not, the Cathedral & The Bazaar was QUITE influential (and the art of unix programming is quite useful). He also monetized open source quite well. Getting financial backers on-board is important. Arguably more important to open source SOFTWARE than Larry Lessig's contribution of CC. (Though I do like and respect Lessing more than ESR as well.)

    Unfortunately, MANY high-profile voices are quite political. RMS & Theo both have their share of detractors too.