Bradley Kuhn shares the speech he gave presenting Mark Wielaard with the 2026 Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom from Software Freedom Conservancy. He recounts meeting Wielaard at GUADEC 2010 and recaps Wielaard's decades of FOSS contributions, including GNU Classpath, the GCC Java front-end, leading IcedTea, maintaining elfutils and Valgrind, and volunteering to maintain Sourceware.org. The award includes a lucite trophy and a symbolic $1,024 cash prize.
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