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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. Re:Linus by Reverend528 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be like giving the rebel alliance award to han solo!

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  3. 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 ....

  4. RTFA by pkhuong · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Last year's winner, Theo de Raadt, was recognized for his work as founder and project leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. Theo joined a prestigious list of previous winners including Alan Cox, Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Larry Lessig, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall."

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

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

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

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

  7. 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?

  8. 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?

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

    Bram Moolenaar for vim and Bram Cohen for BitTorrent.

  10. The info's in Wikipedia by H4x0r+Jim+Duggan · · Score: 2, Informative

    See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSF_Award_for_the_Adv ancement_of_Free_Software

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