1999 Free Software Award

For the 1999 Free Software Award, we have received a lot of nominees. They are, in alphabetical order;

: Tom Adelstein, Eric Allman, Apache Software Foundation, Armed Linux, Lennart Augustsson, AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, Stig Bakken, Donald Becker, Brian Behlendorf, Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Blandy, Craig Burley, Thomas Bushnell, Shane Caraveo, James Clark, Alan Cox, Miguel de Icaza, DJ Delorie, Debian Project, Theo De Raadt, Matthias Ettrich, Paul Eggert, Ralf S. Engelschall, Fred Fish, Olivier Fourdan, Fractint Team, FreeBSD Team, Bill Gates, John Gilmore, Andi Gutmans, Chuck Hagenbuch, Carsten Haitzler, Charles Hannum, Shawn Hargreaves, Geoff Harrison, Mike Heins, Joey Hess, Earl Hood, Jordan K. Hubbard, Dan Ingalls, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, Kyle Jones, Bill Joy, Alexandre Julliard, Mike Karels, Jeremy Katz, Spencer Kimball, Donald Knuth, Werner Koch, Alfredo Kenji Kojima, Jeffrey A. Law, Patrick Lenz, Marc Lehmann, Rasmus Lerdorf, Mark Linton, MRTG Team, Paul Mackerras, Peter Mattias, Doug McEachern, Caolan McNamara, Kirk McKusick, Bram Moolenaar, Tobias Oetiker, Tim O'Reilly, John Ousterhout, PHP Project, Dave Rand, Brian Paul, Nicholas Petreley, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, Alessandro Rubini, SGI, Dr Douglas Schmidt, Keith Sklower, W. Richard Stevens, Darryl Strauss, Zeev Suraski, Danny ter Haar, Andrew Tridgell, Jorrit Tyberghein, Bert Tyler, Guido van Rossum, Miquels van Smoorenburg, Wietse Venema, Paul Vixie, Patrick Volkerding, Tim Wegner, Jim Winstead, Jamie Zawinski, Phil Zimmerman.

We want to give this award to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software (free as in freedom; see our definition of free software), through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.

Any kind of activity could be 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. (Once again, that's free as in freedom; see our philosophy on selling free software) Work done commercially is eligible, but we want to give awards to individuals, not companies.

People such as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall, who have already received this or other awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Free Software Award.

The award committee members are Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Peter Salus, Richard Stallman, and Larry Wall.

Here is a list of prior years' awards.

For more information about the nominees, please read the nomines page.

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Updated: 20 Mar 2000 tower