abstract:David Dawes (born 3 December 1964), is one of the founders of the XFree86 project. He was one of four people who started it in 1992 (together with David Wexelblat, Glenn Lai, and Jim Tsillas), and became the project president in 1994.
Luckily, comedians Matt Lucas, better known as George Dawes, and David Lucas provided some humour when they dressed as Charlotte Church and Eminem to present the prize for best British male.