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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. Re:Linus by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean the guy who thinks functionality is more important than freedom? The guy who has no problem with DRM in the linux kernel? Theo de Raadt may be an asshole and he may have declared his hate for the FSF on more than one occasion but at least he's always stood up for freedom... that's why he deserved to win last year's award.

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  2. Donald Becker? by hubritc · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I didn't see him in the linked list.

    By the way, when I was getting started in Linux years ago, I was in Fry's trying to pick a network card that would work with Linux. Of course the Fry's guy had no idea. A fellow customer stepped up and said, "Most of these should work. They have Linux drivers. I wrote them." Even though I was a noob, I knew enough to know who he was.

    While I am going on this way ...

    I saw Linus outside of home depot with his kids and wife. She saw me see him and stand there kind of slack jawed for a moment while I wondered ... is that someone I know .... is that Him? and she knew ... yep another Linux geek ....

  3. The DeCSS guy by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How bout Jon Johansen. That was free software, right?

  4. Mark Shuttleworth by Rafikichi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu Linux Foundation are doing great things.

  5. The Brams by Noksagt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bram Moolenaar for vim and Bram Cohen for BitTorrent.