Z:gnu-www-ja-2001-12-03-Takeda--ee2f85-Stallman shares the full 2001/en

Stallman shares the full 2001 Takeda award of 100 million yen with two other recipients. Ken Sakamura receives the award for developing and promoting the TRON architecture, a real-time operating system specification for embedded systems. Linus Torvalds is honored for his work on the operating system kernel called Linux, which is normally used together with GNU. The GNU/Linux system, which combines GNU and Linux, has over 20 million users worldwide.