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FSF主催「第1回 1998年フリーソフトウェア賞」プレスリリース

これはFSFのプレスリリース記事で、1998年10月9日ボストンのMITのメディアラボにて開催の、FSF主催「第1回 1998年フリーソフトウェア賞」のプレスリリース向けアナウンス原稿です。Enjoy!


An international group of computer hackers will gather next week to hold
their own awards event celebrating accomplishments in free software.


   WHAT:  First Annual Free Software Award
   WHO:   Presented by the Free Software Foundation
   WHEN:  October 9th, 1998 
          Reception 7 pm  Presentation 8 pm (By Invitation Only)
   WHERE: MIT Media Lab, The Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

		      Media inquiries to:
		         Timothy Ney
		         e-mail: awards-1998@gnu.org
	                 phone:  617.542.5942

An international audience of computer and other professionals will gather
next Friday at the MIT Media Lab for a presentation of the first Free
Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

The Award event will kick off an international Internet conference, "One
Planet, One Net" held by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Other conference events will be on October 10 and 11 at MIT.

The Free Software Award will be given to someone chosen from hundreds of
nominations submitted by e-mail.  The recipient will be someone who has made
a great contribution to the progress and development of free software
through activities that accord with the spirit of free software ("free" as
in freedom; see  for the
definition).

The Free Software Foundation was founded about fifteen years ago by Richard
Stallman, already an internationally reknowned programmer and since then a
recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award.  In 1984 Stallman set out to
create a free computer operating system called GNU ("GNU's not Unix").
Today, with Linus Torvalds, he is acknowledged as the force behind what is
commonly called Linux.

Free Software such as the GNU/Linux operating system and the Apache
webserver has received increased recognition in 1998.  Earlier this year, 
Netscape made its browser source code available under an agreement based on 
the principles of the Free Software Foundation.

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