Saturday, June 29, 2013

Richard Stallman on the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame


Software freedom activist and developer Richard Stallman was inducted into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame on june 26.

The Internet Hall of Fame is an annual awards program organized by the Internet Society. Its goal is to publicly recognize "a distinguished and selected group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet."

Mr. Stallman was chosen for creating the GNU Project, authoring the GNU General Public License, and for founding the free software movement. He was inducted in the Innovation category which recognizes people who have made contributions that have "broken new ground with original thinking / creativity that has established new paradigms, eliminated obstacles or accelerated Internet advancements."

Besides Innovation, other criteria for evaluating the nominees include Impact, Influence and

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