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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. Once an individual has been honored with an FSF award, they cannot win it again. Image File history File links Portal. ... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ...

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. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 Since 2001, the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM) is an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls for the free software/open source community. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area...

Winners

2006 Theodore Ts'o

for his work on the Linux kernel and his roles as a project leader in the development of Kerberos and ONC RPC. The other finalists were Wietse Venema for his creation of the Postfix mailserver and his work on security tools, and Yukihiro Matsumoto for his work in designing the Ruby programming language.

2005 Andrew Tridgell

for his work on Samba and his packet analysis work which led to the withdrawal of gratis BitKeeper licenses, spurring the development of a free software distributed revision control system for Linux. The other finalists were Hartmut Pilch founder of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure for his combatting of the Software Patent Directive in Europe and Theodore Ts'o for his filesystem development on the Linux kernel.

2004 Theo de Raadt

for his work in opening the drivers, documentation and firmware of wireless networking cards for the good of everyone. The other finalists were Andrew Tridgell for Samba and Cesar Brod for advocacy in Brazil.

2003 Alan Cox

for his work advocating the importance of software freedom, his outspoken opposition to the USA's DMCA as well as other technology control measures and his development work on the Linux kernel. The other finalists were Theo de Raadt for OpenBSD and Werner Koch for GnuPG.

2002 Lawrence Lessig

for promoting understanding of the political dimension of free software, including the idea that "code is law". The other finalists were Bruno Haible for CLISP and Theo de Raadt for OpenBSD.

2001 Guido van Rossum

for Python. The other finalists were L. Peter Deutsch for GNU Ghostscript and Andrew Tridgell for Samba.

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 Freshmeat.

1999 Miguel de Icaza

for his leadership and work on the GNOME Project. 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.

1998 Larry Wall

for numerous contributions to Free Software, notably Perl. The other finalists were the Apache Project, Tim Berners-Lee, Jordan Hubbard, Ted Lemon, Eric S. Raymond, Henry Spencer.

Larry Wall, 1998 Theodore Ted Tso is a software developer known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to filesystems. ... The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel. ... Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol which allows individuals communicating over an insecure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. ... ONC RPC - short for Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call, sometimes also called Sun RPC because it was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, is a widely deployed remote procedure call system. ... Wietse Venema speaking at a conference in 2004 Dr. Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix mail system. ... Postfix is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email, that is intended as a fast, easy to administer and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail. ... Yukihiro Matsumoto, a. ... Ruby is a reflective, dynamic, object-oriented programming language. ... Andrew Tridge Tridgell (born February 28, 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the creator of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. ... Samba is a free software re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. ... BitKeeper is a software tool for revision control (configuration management, SCM, etc. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... Revision control (also known as version control, source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. ... The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel. ... Hartmut Pilch (born July 7, 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) founded the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII, and is a simultaneous conference interpreter, translator and software developer, who lives in Munich, Germany. ... The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is a lobbying association based in Munich, Germany. ... The European Union (EU) Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions (2002/0047/COD) was a proposal for an EU law which aimed to harmonise EU national patent laws and practices, which involved the granting of patents for computer-implemented inventions provided they meet certain criteria. ... Theodore Ted Tso is a software developer known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to filesystems. ... The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel. ... Theo de Raadt, pronounced de rot, (born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ... Andrew Tridge Tridgell (born February 28, 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the creator of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. ... Samba logo. ... Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... Theo de Raadt, pronounced de rot, (born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ... OpenBSD is a freely available Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Werner Koch (born July 11, 1961) is a German free software author. ... The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software, released under the GNU General Public License. ... Note: This article title may be easily confused with Lawrence Lessing. ... CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation. ... Theo de Raadt, pronounced de rot, (born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ... OpenBSD is a freely available Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. ... Python is a programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. ... L. Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript interpreter. ... Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter of the Adobe PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. ... Andrew Tridge Tridgell (born February 28, 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the creator of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. ... Samba logo. ... Brian Paul is a computer programmer who initially wrote (in August 1993), and continues to maintain the Open Source Mesa graphics library. ... Mesa 3D is an open source graphics library that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering 3-Dimensional graphics on multiple platforms. ... Donald Becker is a notable developer well known for writing many of the Ethernet drivers for the Linux operating system. ... Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza (born c. ... A gnome (or Nisse) hiding behind a toadstool. ... Donald Ervin Knuth ( or Ka-NOOTH[1], Chinese: [2]) (b. ... John Gilmore John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. ... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... Larry Wall Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. ... Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... The Apache HTTP Server is a web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, Mac OS X and other operating systems. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Jordan K. Hubbard (born April 8, 1963 in Hawaii) is co-founder of the FreeBSD project. ... Eric S. Raymond (FISL 6. ... 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Alan Cox, 2003 Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ...	Theo de Raadt, 2004 Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Theo de Raadt, pronounced de rot, (born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ...	Theodore Ts'o, 2006 Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Theodore Ted Tso is a software developer known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to filesystems. ...

Award Committee

• 2006: Peter H. Salus (chair), Richard Stallman, Andrew Tridgell, Alan Cox, Lawrence Lessig, Vernor Vinge, Frederic Couchet, Jonas Oberg, Hong Feng, Raju Mathur, Suresh Ramasubramanian
• 2005: Peter H. Salus (chair), Richard Stallman, Alan Cox, Lawrence Lessig, Guido van Rossum, Frederic Couchet, Jonas Oberg, Hong Feng, Bruce Perens, Raju Mathur, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Enrique A. Chaparro, Ian Murdock
• 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 H. 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 H. Salus, Suresh Ramasubramanian, and Larry Wall
• 2001 "The selection committee included": Miguel de Icaza, Ian Murdock, Eric Raymond, Peter H. Salus, Vernor Vinge, and Larry Wall
• 2000: (no details found)
• 1999: Peter H. Salus, (no further details found)
• 1998: Peter H. Salus, Scott Christley, Rich Morin, Adam Richter, Richard Stallman, and Vernor Vinge

Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Andrew Tridge Tridgell (born February 28, 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the creator of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. ... Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... Note: This article title may be easily confused with Lawrence Lessing. ... Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which... Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... Note: This article title may be easily confused with Lawrence Lessing. ... Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. ... Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement and to some extent in the free software movement. ... Ian Murdock is the founder of the Debian project and the commercial Progeny Debian distribution. ... Frederick Noronha (b 1963 in Brazil) is an freelance journalist based in Goa, India. ... Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which... Larry Wall Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. ... Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement and to some extent in the free software movement. ... Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which... Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza (born c. ... Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957) (often referred to by his initials, ESR) is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as The New Hackers Dictionary). Though the Jargon File established his original reputation... Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. ... Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Larry Wall Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. ... Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza (born c. ... Ian Murdock is the founder of the Debian project and the commercial Progeny Debian distribution. ... Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957) (often referred to by his initials, ESR) is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as The New Hackers Dictionary). Though the Jargon File established his original reputation... Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which... Larry Wall Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. ... Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing. ... Yggdrasil Linux is an early Linux distribution (distro) developed by Yggdrasil, a company founded by Adam Richter. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Vernor Steffen Vinge (IPA: ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay The Technological Singularity, in which...

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