The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced the four winners of its 2010 Pioneer Awards. The winners are Pamela Jones and Groklaw, Steven Aftergood, James Boyle, and Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru. "When Pamela Jones created Groklaw in 2003, she envisioned a new kind of participatory journalism and distributed discovery -- a place where programmers and engineers could educate lawyers on technology relevant to legal cases of significance to the Free and Open Source community, and where technologists could learn about how the legal system works. Groklaw quickly became an essential resource for understanding such important legal debates as the SCO-Linux lawsuits, the European Union antitrust case against Microsoft, and whether software should qualify for patent protection."

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