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The Free Software Foundation has announced its support of free software projects designed to replace components of Microsoft's .NET: Mono and DotGNU. Read the press release (plain text).

The GNU project has received the 2001 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award. See A press release, Bob Chassell's acceptance speech, and Bob Chassell's statement.

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