[ubuntu-tn] Fwd: [FSF] Free Software Award Winners Announced: John Gilmore and the Internet Archive

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Date: 2010/3/25
Subject: [FSF] Free Software Award Winners Announced: John Gilmore and the
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You can see photographs of the award winners at:
http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-free-software-awards


BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- March 23, 2010 -- The Free Software Foundation
(FSF) announced the winners of the annual free software awards at a ceremony
on Saturday March 20, held during the LibrePlanet conference at Harvard
Science Center in Cambridge, MA.

The award for the Advancement of Free Software was won by John Gilmore. The
award for Project of Social Benefit was won by the Internet Archive. The
awards were presented by FSF president and founder Richard M. Stallman.

Brewster Kahle co-founder and chairman of the Internet Archive was at the
ceremony to collect the award and spoke about the work of his organization,
"We are trying to follow in the footsteps of the free software movement and
apply these ideas to the cultural materials layer, building organizations
that are founded on these principals."

John Gilmore who had earlier given a presentation at the conference on the
future goals of the free software movement, said on receiving the award,
"Free software has been very good to me, and I'm glad that I have been good
to it." The awards committee recognized Gilmore's many contributions and
long term commitment to the free software movement.

The award citation for John Gilmore read:

   As one of the founders of Cygnus Solutions, Gilmore gave free software a
place in the business world long before GNU/Linux became popular. He is a
well-known free software and freedom activist. He is a co-founder of the
EFF, the alt newsgroup, and a major promoter of cryptography. He has written
or contributed to free software including the projects pdtar (which became
GNU Tar), GNU UUCP, GNU GDB and Kerberos. John has also promoted free
software through his philanthropy, funding many free software projects
including, GNU Radio and GNU Gnash and he remains active in advancing the
cause of computer user freedom.

John Gilmore joins a distinguished list of previous winners:

   * 2008 Wietse Venema
   * 2007 Harald Welte
   * 2006 Ted Ts'o
   * 2005 Andrew Tridgell
   * 2004 Theo de Raadt
   * 2003 Alan Cox
   * 2002 Lawrence Lessig
   * 2001 Guido van Rossum
   * 2000 Brian Paul
   * 1999 Miguel de Icaza
   * 1998 Larry Wall


The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented annually to a team or
organization that applies free software, or the ideas of the free software
movement, in a way that significantly benefits society. The award citation
for the Internet Archive read:

   The Internet Archive is a non-profit founded to build a free and open
Internet library. They provide 1.8 million free public domain and out of
print books in collaboration with libraries all over the world. They have
collected more than 500,000 audio items, including over 70,000 live concert
recordings made freely available in lossless formats by thousands of
volunteers with the permission of the artists. More than 200,000 video items
are freely downloadable in a variety of formats, including the free software
video format Ogg Theora. They have been archiving the Web at large since
1996, making over 150 billion copies of web pages available to the public
through the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive has written free software
of their own, including Heretrix, their web crawler (crawler.archive.org),
and a free software version of the Wayback Machine software, in addition to
contributing patches to many other free software projects <
http://www.archive.org>.

Previos winners of the social benefit award:

   * 2008 Creative Commons
   * 2007 Groklaw
   * 2006 Sahana Disaster Management System
   * 2005 Wikipedia

This year's award committee was chaired by Suresh Ramasubramanian and
included Peter H. Salus, Wietse Venema, Lawrence Lessig, Raj Mathur, Hong
Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Verner Vinge, Richard Stallman, Fernanda
G. Weiden and Harald Welte.


About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer
programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom)
software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants
-- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread
awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of
software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an
important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the
FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in
Boston, MA, USA.

Media Contacts

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