Note that no one bothered nominating Linus. Too obvious? ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- From: Tim Ney <ten(a)gnu.org&gt; To: info-gnu(a)gnu.org Subject: Nominees for the Free Software Award Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:51:45 -0400 The eligible nominees for the First Annual Free Software Foundation for the Advancement of Free Software are: Rick Adams Eric Allman Marc Andreesson Apache group The creator and free distributor of arachnophillia web authoring Steve Baur Donald J. Becker Tim Berners-Lee Craig Burley Tom Christiansen James Clark Dominique Colnet Alan Cox Debian GNU/Linux project DJ Delorie L. Peter Deutsch Jack Dongarra Clayton Donley Ulrich Drepper Bryan Dye John W. Eaton Paul Eggert Ralf S. Engelschall Katharine English ETL, Japan: Ken'ichi Handa et al. Matthias Ettrich Fred Fish Brian Fox FreeBSD core team Danny Gasparovski gcc version 2.7.x.x team John Gilmore Anybody associated with GIMP project. Tristan Gingold Donald Gudehus Carsten Haitzler and Geoff Harrison Jon "maddog" Hall David Harris Philip Hazel Mark Hessling Jordan K. Hubbard Jan Hubicka Miguel de Icaza Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen The guy who wrote Kaffe KDE-Team Spencer Kimball Donald Knuth Karin Kylander and Olof S. Kylander Chrisopher Langton Ted Lemon and the Internet Software Consortium Patrick Lenz Richard Leyton James Love and Ralph Nader H.J. Lu Doug MacEachern Rob Malda Eberhard Mattes Peter Mattis Brian McCauley Roland McGrath Dave Miller Rob Mlada Bram Moolenaar Erik Naggum NEdit team Jamie Zawinski and Jim Barksdale Joachim Neubueser and Martin Schoenert NPR Vern Parson Brian Paul Bruce Perens Nick Petreley PHP development team Sebastian Rahtz Eric S. Raymond Arnold Robbins Kai-Uwe Rommel Guido van Rossum Timo Salmi The Samba Team Bob Scheifler Douglas C. Schmidt Randal Schwartz Joel Sherrill Henry Spencer Alex Stepanov David Stes Ian Taylor Michael Tiemann Andrew Tridgell SAMBA Paul Vixie Patrick Volkerding Larry Wall Matt Welsh Jim Warren webmaster of http://www.linux.org Duane Wessels Bob Young Eli Zaretskii Andreas Zeller Phil Zimmerman Congratulations to all of the nominees. The winner of the award will be announced on October 9th. The original announcement calling for nominations can be found at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/award.html. ------- end -------