At the second annual European Open Source Awards, Greg Kroah-Hartman received the main prize in recognition of his “outstanding impact” in open source software development, technical leadership and sustained excellence over several decades.
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“I feel very privileged and honoured that my peers have recognised the work I have done for so long,” Greg Kroah-Hartman, a fellow of the Linux Foundation, told the awards ceremony at the historic Bibliothèque Solvay in Brussels on 29th January. “But it is not just me, there are tens of thousands of developers doing this work,” he added, emphasising long-lasting solutions as a core strength of the open source community. “Writing code once is really easy, making it work for 25 years is a totally different kind of engineering. The open source community is really good at that. It is like maintaining a bridge for 100 years.”
Hosted by the European Open Source Academy and supported by the EU-funded project OSAwards.EU, the ceremony recognised the human stories behind Europe’s digital infrastructure – much of which is based on open source technology – including developers and community leaders whose work sustains everything from cloud computing and AI to healthcare, energy systems, and public services.
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