The uncomfortable feeling of a "lifetime achievement"-style award aside, Eggert is clearly hugely deserving of the Advancement of Free Software award. Beyond GCC and tzdb work specifically mentioned in the article, a weak grep in /usr/share/doc on my system shows significant contributions to bash, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, grep, gzip, make, patch, tar, util-linux.
Eggert gets an award for his tz debacle, after almost everybody threatened to fork it??