Guido van Rossum—Received FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software for creating Python

Feb 16, 2002

At the 2002 FOSDEM conference in Brussels, FSF President Richard Stallman presented Guido van Rossum the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software 'for inventing and implementing as Free Software the Python programming language.' This recognized Python's contribution to the free software movement and its design goal of being open source so anyone can contribute to its development.

Scoring Impact

Topic	Direction	Relevance	Contribution
Open Source	+toward	primary	+1.00
Overall incident score =			+0.059

Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.59)× agency (incidental ×0.1)

Evidence (1 signal)

Confirms Statement Feb 16, 2002 verified

Guido van Rossum received FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software

At the 2002 FOSDEM conference, FSF President Richard Stallman presented van Rossum the FSF Award 'for inventing and implementing as Free Software the Python programming language.'

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