Z:gnu-www-ja-2002-02-16-FSF-Award--e3fc05-Guido van Rossum was chosen fr/en

Guido van Rossum was chosen from three finalists for the award. The other finalists were L. Peter Deutsch, for his work on GNU Ghostscript, the popular Postscript emulation program for GNU/Linux, and Andrew Tridgell, for his work on Samba, a Microsoft Windows network file system emulation program.