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Squirrels?

I didn't know there were squirrels on the GPL writing team! For that matter when I look it up it's being written by 2 men [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen]Eben Moglen[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman]RMS[/url]

Which when you look at Stallman is in a very similar position to ol' Ben when you look at where he started and where he is going....

And for the record, what have you earned?

"Stallman has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, amongst them:

* 1990: MacArthur Fellowship
* 1991: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of ... EMACS"
* 1996: Honorary doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
* 1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
* 1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
* 2001: Second honorary doctorate, from the University of Glasgow
* 2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being (武田研究奨励賞)
* 2002: National Academy of Engineering membership
* 2003: Third honorary doctorate, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
* 2004: Fourth honorary doctorate, from the Universidad Nacional de Salta. [22]
* 2004: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad Nacional de Ingenier?a del Per?.

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