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Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX , the OS hiding in a lot of computers.
Software System Award recognises his contributions to education.
MINIX 3 is the software that powers the system management controller embedded in most modern Intel processors.
He retired a decade ago , but remains active in several fields.
If MINIX 1 and 2 had originally been free software, its users could have redistributed modified versions, and Linux might never have happened.
For all Intel 's open source projects, professed open source culture, and its many billions in revenue, it has done nothing to help the MINIX 3 project.
Arguably, Tanenbaum 's arguments for cleaner, simpler, more modular software architecture have been rebutted by the wild success of Linux .
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