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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. 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 ....

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

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