Re: GNU Project /Free Software Award

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I nominate Tristan Gingold, author & developer of Checker, the memory
checking program.  It's a great piece of software and, considering that
any other memory checking software would run you thousands of dollars for
something that's most likely patented, its programming complexity should
be appreciated.  It ranks among my most favorite pieces of software up
there with Linux, Emacs, GCC, qmail, and procmail.  And I'm sure that it
has saved many thousands of hours of debugging for many-a-programmer.


 > From: http://www.quark.cpsr.org/~sevoy
 > Date: Thu  Jul 23,  4:27pm
 > 
 > The First Annual Free Software Award will be presented in conjunction with
 > the One Planet, One Net symposium in October, and CPSR is a co-sponsor. 
 > 
 > GNU Project seeks nominations for the First Annual Free Software Award
 > 
 > The GNU project is asking for nominations for the first Free Software 
 > Award. Presented by the Free Software Foundation <www.gnu.org>, the 
 > award will be given on October 9th to a person who has made a great 
 > contribution to the progress and development of free software (free as 
 > in freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for the 
 > definition), through activities that accord with the spirit of free 
 > software.
 > 
 > Any kind of activity is eligible--writing software, writing
 > documentation, publishing CDs, even journalism--but whatever the
 > activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the
 > development of the world of free software.  "Accord with the spirit"
 > means, for example, that software, manuals or collections of them (on
 > tape or CD) must be entirely free to count.  (Once again, that's free
 > as in freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.)  Work
 > done commercially is eligible, but only individuals, not companies
 > may receive an award.
 > 
 > Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, who have already received other 
 > awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Free Software 
 > Award.
 > 
 > Please send your nominations to http://www.gnu.org/~award-nominations, on or
 > before August 9.  In addition to the name of the person you want to
 > nominate, please include an explanation of the work the person has
 > done and why you think it is especially important.
 > 
 > The awards committee will consider nominations and decide who will
 > receive the award.  The committee's decision will be final.  The
 > committee's members are Peter Salus (Chairman), Scott Christley, Rich
 > Morin, Adam Richter, Richard Stallman, and Vernor Vinge.
 > 
 > The award ceremony will be held on October 9th at MIT in conjunction 
 > with the "One Planet, One Net" Internet conference organized by Computer 
 > Professionals for Social Responsibility <www.cpsr.org>.