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FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software |
The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is annually presented to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.
Since 2001, the award has been presented at Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting ( FOSDEM ). The 2000 Award Ceremony was held at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris, France. In 1999 it was presented in the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.
= Winners =
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2001: Guido van Rossum — for Python programming language. The other finalists were L. Peter Deutsch for GNU Ghostscript and Andrew Tridgell for Samba software.
2000: Brian Paul — for his work on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. The other finalists were Donald Becker for his work on Linux drivers and Patrick Lenz for the open source site [http://www.freshmeat.net Freshmeat].
1999: Miguel de Icaza — The other finalists were Donald Knuth for TeX and METAFONT and John Gilmore for work done at Cygnus Solutions and his contributions to the Free Software Foundation.
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= Award Committee =
2004: Suresh Ramasubramanian, Raj Mathur, Frederick Noronha, Hong Feng, Frederic Couchet, Enrique A. Chaparro, Vernor Vinge, Larry Wall, Alan Cox, Peter H Salus, Richard Stallman
2003 The selection committee included : Enrique A. Chaparro, Frederic Couchet, Miguel de Icaza, Raju Mathur, Frederick Noronha, Jonas Oberg, Bruce Perens, Peter Salus, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Richard Stallman, and Vernor Vinge
2002 The selection committee included : Enrique A. Chaparro, Frederic Couchet, Hong Feng, Miguel de Icaza, Raju Mathur, Frederick Noronha, Jonas Oberg, Eric Raymond, Guido van Rossum, Peter Salus, Suresh Ramasubramanian, and Larry Wall
2001 The selection committee included : Miguel de Icaza, Ian Murdock, Eric Raymond, Peter Salus, Vernor Vinge, and Larry Wall
2000: (no details found)
1999: Peter Salus, (no further details found)
1998: Peter Salus, Scott Christley, Rich Morin, Adam Richter, Richard Stallman, and Vernor Vinge
= External links =
[http://www.gnu.org/award/ Official site]
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