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Winners of the 2004 Australian Open Source Awards

(I live in Australia, so hey this stuff interests me!)

AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) announced the winners of the 2004 Australian Open Source Awards. The awards were announced at the 6th Australian Open Source Symposium, held yesterday in Perth. The awards are voted on by AUUG members, and this year for the first time voting was opened to Linux Australia and SAGE-AU members as well.

The winners are:

Technology Award
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Andrew Morton – For work on the Linux kernel.
(http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/)

Application Award
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Richard Sharpe – For work on the Ethereal network analyzer.
(http://www.ethereal.com/)

Community Award
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Jeremy Malcolm – For outstanding contribution to the understanding of para-technical and legal issues surrounding open source within the Australian context.

Full details can be viewed at:
http://www.auug.org.au/awards/aosa/aosa-2004.html

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