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2012 Free Software Award Winners Announced

Posted by timothy on from the anagram-was-a-good-strategy dept.

jrepin writes "Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Stallman announced the winners of the FSF's annual Free Software Awards at a ceremony held during the LibrePlanet 2013 conference. The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is given annually to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. This year, it was given to Dr. Fernando Perez, the creator of IPython, a rich architecture for interactive computing. The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity. This year, the award went to OpenMRS, a free software medical record system for developing countries."

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  1. I admire these people by supertrooper · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As someone who writes software for living, I admire these people.

  2. Re:Conditions? by vux984 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    GPL doesnt "make the software really free" unless you subscribe to a particular definition of freedom which excludes developer freedom.

    Much like liberty doesn't make people really free unless you subscribe to a particular definition of freedom which excludes jailor freedom.

    Any definition of freedom that doesn't let me put other people into cages just isn't really freedom.