Free Software Award Nominees, 1998

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         The First Annual Free Software Foundation Award
               for the Advancement of Free Software

                           MIT Media Lab
                      Friday, October 9, 1998

                             Nominees

Alan Cox
Alex Stepanov
Andreas Zeller
Andrew Tridgell
Anybody associated with GIMP project.
Apache group
Arnold Robbins
Bob Scheifler
Bob Young
Bram Moolenaar
Brian Fox
Brian McCauley
Brian Paul
Bruce Perens
Bryan Dye
Carsten Haitzler and Geoff Harrison
Chrisopher Langton
Clayton Donley
Craig Burley
Danny Gasparovski
Dave Miller
David Harris
David Stes
Debian GNU/Linux project
DJ Delorie
Dominique Colnet
Donald Gudehus
Donald J. Becker
Donald Knuth
Douglas C. Schmidt
Doug MacEachern
Duane Wessels
Eberhard Mattes
Eli Zaretskii
Eric Allman
Eric S. Raymond
Erik Naggum
ETL, Japan: Ken'ichi Handa et al.
Fred Fish
FreeBSD core team
gcc version 2.7.x.x team
Guido van Rossum
Henry Spencer
H.J. Lu
Ian Taylor
Jack Dongarra
James Clark
James Love and Ralph Nader
Jamie Zawinski and Jim Barksdale
Jan Hubicka
Jim Warren
Joachim Neubueser and Martin Schoenert
Joel Sherrill
John Gilmore
John W. Eaton
Jon "maddog" Hall
Jordan K. Hubbard
Kai-Uwe Rommel
Karin Kylander and Olof S. Kylander
Katharine English
KDE-Team
Larry Wall
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
L. Peter Deutsch
Marc Andreesson
Mark Hessling
Matthias Ettrich
Matt Welsh
Michael Tiemann
Miguel de Icaza
NEdit team
Nick Petreley
NPR
Patrick Lenz
Patrick Volkerding
Paul Eggert
Paul Vixie
Peter Mattis
Philip Hazel
Phil Zimmerman
PHP development team
Ralf S. Engelschall
Randal Schwartz
Richard Leyton
Rick Adams
Rob Malda
Rob Mlada
Roland McGrath
Sebastian Rahtz
Spencer Kimball
Steve Baur
Ted Lemon and the Internet Software Consortium
The creator and free distributor of arachnophillia web authoring
The guy who wrote Kaffe
The SAMBA Team
Tim Berners-Lee
Timo Salmi
Tom Christiansen
Tristan Gingold
Ulrich Drepper
Vern Parson
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