EFF Pioneer Award
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The EFF Award, formerly EFF Pioneer Award, is an annual prize by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals online.
The EFF Pioneer Award
Richard Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman, also known by his initials rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users hav
EFF Pioneer Award
…1997: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil (special award; posthumous with respect to Antheil), Johan Helsingius, Marc Rotenberg 1998: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Barbara Simons 1999: Jon Postel (posthumous award), Drazen Pantic, Simon Davies…
Stallman in 2024
Stallman giving a speech on "Free Software and Your Freedom" at the biennale du design of Saint-Étienne (2008)
Stallman using his Lemote machine at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Stallman at Swatantra 2014, a conference organized by ICFOSS in Kerala, India