BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- March 2=
3, 2010 -- The Free Software 
Foundation (FSF) announced the winners of =
the annual free software 
awards at a ceremony on Saturday March 20, hel=
d during the LibrePlanet 

conference at Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, MA.

The award for=
 the Advancement of Free Software was won by John Gilmore. 
The award fo=
r Project of Social Benefit was won by the Internet Archive. 
The awards=
 were presented by FSF president and founder Richard M. Stallman.


(photographs are available at 
09-free-software-awards">http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-free-software-awards<=
/a>)

Brewster Kahle co-founder and chairman of the Internet Archive =
was at 

the ceremony to collect the award and spoke about the work of his 
organ=
ization, "We are trying to follow in the footsteps of the free 
sof=
tware movement and apply these ideas to the cultural materials layer, 

building organizations that are founded on these principals."

J=
ohn Gilmore who had earlier given a presentation at the conference on 
t=
he future goals of the free software movement, said on receiving the 

award, "Free software has been very good to me, and I'm glad that =
I have 
been good to it." The awards committee recognized Gilmore&#=
39;s many 
contributions and long term commitment to the free software m=
ovement.


The award citation for John Gilmore read:

     As one of the fou=
nders of Cygnus Solutions, Gilmore gave free 
software a place in the bu=
siness world long before GNU/Linux became 
popular. He is a well-known f=
ree software and freedom activist. He is a 

co-founder of the EFF, the alt newsgroup, and a major promoter of 
crypt=
ography. He has written or contributed to free software including 
the p=
rojects pdtar (which became GNU Tar), GNU UUCP, GNU GDB and 
Kerberos. J=
ohn has also promoted free software through his philanthropy, 

funding many free software projects including, GNU Radio and GNU Gnash 
=
and he remains active in advancing the cause of computer user freedom.
<=
br>John Gilmore joins a distinguished list of previous winners:


     * 2008 Wietse Venema
     * 2007 Harald Welte
     * 2006 Ted Ts=
'o
     * 2005 Andrew Tridgell
     * 2004 Theo de Raadt
     =
* 2003 Alan Cox
     * 2002 Lawrence Lessig
     * 2001 Guido van Ros=
sum

     * 2000 Brian Paul
     * 1999 Miguel de Icaza
     * 1998 Larry =
Wall


The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented annua=
lly to a team 
or organization that applies free software, or the ideas =
of the free 

software movement, in a way that significantly benefits society. The 
aw=
ard citation for the Internet Archive read:

     The Internet Archiv=
e is a non-profit founded to build a free and 
open Internet library. Th=
ey provide 1.8 million free public domain and 

out of print books in collaboration with libraries all over the world. 
=
They have collected more than 500,000 audio items, including over 70,000 r>live concert recordings made freely available in lossless formats by 

thousands of volunteers with the permission of the artists. More than 
2=
00,000 video items are freely downloadable in a variety of formats, 
inc=
luding the free software video format Ogg Theora. They have been 
archiv=
ing the Web at large since 1996, making over 150 billion copies of 

web pages available to the public through the Wayback Machine. The 
Inte=
rnet Archive has written free software of their own, including 
Heretrix=
, their web crawler (crawler.archive=
.org), and a free software 

version of the Wayback Machine software, in addition to contributing 
pa=
tches to many other free software projects <e.org/">http://www.archive.org>.

Previos winners of the socia=
l benefit award:


     * 2008 Creative Commons
     * 2007 Groklaw
     * 2006 Saha=
na Disaster Management System
     * 2005 Wikipedia

This year'=
;s award committee was chaired by Suresh Ramasubramanian and 
included P=
eter H. Salus, Wietse Venema, Lawrence Lessig, Raj Mathur, 

Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Verner Vinge, Richard Stallman, r>Fernanda G. Weiden and Harald Welte.


About the Free Software F=
oundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicate=
d to promoting 

computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute >computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as r>in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its >
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF >also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of 
=
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at tp://fsf.org">fsf.org 

and gnu.org, are an important source of info=
rmation about GNU/Linux. 
Donations to support the FSF's work can be=
 made at 
http://donate.fsf.org. =
Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- March 2=
3, 2010 -- The Free Software 
Foundation (FSF) announced the winners of =
the annual free software 
awards at a ceremony on Saturday March 20, hel=
d during the LibrePlanet 

conference at Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, MA.

The award for=
 the Advancement of Free Software was won by John Gilmore. 
The award fo=
r Project of Social Benefit was won by the Internet Archive. 
The awards=
 were presented by FSF president and founder Richard M. Stallman.


(photographs are available at 
09-free-software-awards">http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-free-software-awards<=
/a>)

Brewster Kahle co-founder and chairman of the Internet Archive =
was at 

the ceremony to collect the award and spoke about the work of his 
organ=
ization, "We are trying to follow in the footsteps of the free 
sof=
tware movement and apply these ideas to the cultural materials layer, 

building organizations that are founded on these principals."

J=
ohn Gilmore who had earlier given a presentation at the conference on 
t=
he future goals of the free software movement, said on receiving the 

award, "Free software has been very good to me, and I'm glad that =
I have 
been good to it." The awards committee recognized Gilmore&#=
39;s many 
contributions and long term commitment to the free software m=
ovement.


The award citation for John Gilmore read:

     As one of the fou=
nders of Cygnus Solutions, Gilmore gave free 
software a place in the bu=
siness world long before GNU/Linux became 
popular. He is a well-known f=
ree software and freedom activist. He is a 

co-founder of the EFF, the alt newsgroup, and a major promoter of 
crypt=
ography. He has written or contributed to free software including 
the p=
rojects pdtar (which became GNU Tar), GNU UUCP, GNU GDB and 
Kerberos. J=
ohn has also promoted free software through his philanthropy, 

funding many free software projects including, GNU Radio and GNU Gnash 
=
and he remains active in advancing the cause of computer user freedom.
<=
br>John Gilmore joins a distinguished list of previous winners:


     * 2008 Wietse Venema
     * 2007 Harald Welte
     * 2006 Ted Ts=
'o
     * 2005 Andrew Tridgell
     * 2004 Theo de Raadt
     =
* 2003 Alan Cox
     * 2002 Lawrence Lessig
     * 2001 Guido van Ros=
sum

     * 2000 Brian Paul
     * 1999 Miguel de Icaza
     * 1998 Larry =
Wall


The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented annua=
lly to a team 
or organization that applies free software, or the ideas =
of the free 

software movement, in a way that significantly benefits society. The 
aw=
ard citation for the Internet Archive read:

     The Internet Archiv=
e is a non-profit founded to build a free and 
open Internet library. Th=
ey provide 1.8 million free public domain and 

out of print books in collaboration with libraries all over the world. 
=
They have collected more than 500,000 audio items, including over 70,000 r>live concert recordings made freely available in lossless formats by 

thousands of volunteers with the permission of the artists. More than 
2=
00,000 video items are freely downloadable in a variety of formats, 
inc=
luding the free software video format Ogg Theora. They have been 
archiv=
ing the Web at large since 1996, making over 150 billion copies of 

web pages available to the public through the Wayback Machine. The 
Inte=
rnet Archive has written free software of their own, including 
Heretrix=
, their web crawler (crawler.archive=
.org), and a free software 

version of the Wayback Machine software, in addition to contributing 
pa=
tches to many other free software projects <e.org/">http://www.archive.org>.

Previos winners of the socia=
l benefit award:


     * 2008 Creative Commons
     * 2007 Groklaw
     * 2006 Saha=
na Disaster Management System
     * 2005 Wikipedia

This year'=
;s award committee was chaired by Suresh Ramasubramanian and 
included P=
eter H. Salus, Wietse Venema, Lawrence Lessig, Raj Mathur, 

Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Verner Vinge, Richard Stallman, r>Fernanda G. Weiden and Harald Welte.


About the Free Software F=
oundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicate=
d to promoting 

computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute >computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as r>in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its >
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF >also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of 
=
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at tp://fsf.org">fsf.org 

and gnu.org, are an important source of info=
rmation about GNU/Linux. 
Donations to support the FSF's work can be=
 made at 
http://donate.fsf.org. =
Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.