FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards 2012

jrepin writes "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the opening of nominations for the 15th annual Free Software Awards. The Free Software Awards include the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is presented annually to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently, nobody gives a shit.

TOR

[Anonymous Coward]

As always, TOR would be up there for me, as would the Byzantium Mesh Network and Freedombox Projects.
People often talk about privacy technology, and fantasise about file sharing and mesh applications, Those few who
bite the bullet and actually develop and push these technologies into the hands of those who most need them are to
be commended.

Re:I nominate windows 8!

[wdef]

Actually, the statistical fact is that POVERTY varies roughly inversely as fertility. Once the standard of living rises in a given community, birthrates drop. Obesity also increases with poverty. If we want birthrates to fall in those communities, then raise the standard of living. It's guaranteed that birthrates will fall.