Free Software Award Nominees, 1998

See the finalists or the citation of winner Larry Wall.

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 Arachnophilia web authoring
• The guy who wrote Kaffe
• The SAMBA Team
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Timo Salmi
• Tom Christiansen
• Tristan Gingold
• Ulrich Drepper
• Vern Parson
• Webmaster of www.linux.org