Free Software Foundation Wins $25,000 Award

tgeller writes "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) just won a $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community Award "for its continued support of the Linux community". This one's from publisher/expo organizer International Data Group. See the press release. What, Stallman's $100K Macarthur Fellowship wasn't enough? :) " Silliness aside, some big congrats are in order here.

Comments

No, we should be grateful to him.

[Analogue Kid]

It's the rest of the 'open source community' who is ungrateful to him. Gnu is the very heart of just about any 'linux' distribution. RMS has been slaving away for about 20 years to make this possible. Those who simply jump on top of his shoulders now that his work is reaching a critical mass ought to be grateful to the FSF... Linus and ESR included.

Can you really fault a man for not wanting to be edited out of a movement for which he is the very soul?

Re:That ungrateful SOB Stallman...

[EngrBohn]

!?
Given how much the FSF has given away, please explain to the rest of us how RMS is ungrateful. I don't agree with all he says, but I'd say he's been rather generous.
Christopher A. Bohn

DO

[Jonas �berg]

While this award is for the Free Software Foundation in general, I'd like to make it a special point to congratulate all the people who have worked and is working in the FSF Distribution Office in Boston.
Without their hard and dedicated work, we wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as we have.

GPL Tested in Court

[EngrBohn]

Frankly, I'd rather not see GPL tested in court, since that would require first that somebody attempt to violate the GPL.
Christopher A. Bohn