[Fsf-india] Guido van Rossum Awarded the Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software

[Arun M]

I think this is very important event.
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A committee of Free Software pioneers and leaders selected the winner and  
two other finalists from the scores of mostly volunteer programmers worldwide 
who dedicate their time to advancing Free Software. The selection committee 
included: Miguel de Icaza, Ian Murdock, Eric Raymond, Peter Salus, Vernor 
Vinge, and Larry Wall. Prior to committee deliberations, a two month open 
nominations process decided the list from which the committee chose these 
finalists.

Guido van Rossum was chosen from three finalists for the award. The other 
finalists were L. Peter Deutsch, for his work on GNU Ghostscript, the popular 
Postscript emulation program for GNU/Linux, and Andrew Tridgell, for his work 
on Samba, a Microsoft Windows network file system emulation program.