Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the inspiring-the-masses dept.
A few names always tend to crop up in a discussion of this nature.
The advocates are the people who spread the message of Open Source outside of just the guys who read Slashdot and freshmeat obsessively. Who does it the best? Nominate the person you feel deserves it most.
Without the continuous unreliability of their earlier server products, many companies would not know to look for viable alternatives, including (but not limited to) the "Open Source" environments.
Some of our best advocates have managed never to put a foot wrong; I think the LWN writers are always bang on, for example. But hell, some of the best deserve to be forgiven their mistakes, they've made a lot happen and talked a lot of sense. I'll nominate Bruce Perens for this category; I think it's well deserved, and besides, ESR or Chris DiBona would lose $10,000 behind the sofa:-) --
Personally, I'd like to nominate the entire readership of Slashdot, the entire Linux community and the entire [Free|Open|Net]BSD community. There is -no- better advocacy than a satisfied* user. Anyone can talk the talk, but it takes being genuine to walk the walk.
(*Satisfied, in this case, can include people who are unhappy with some aspect of the OS of their choice, but believe in it because they can fix whatever it is that's not so great.)
-- It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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I would, however, retract this nomination if maddog has already received an award for said advocacy.
Without the continuous unreliability of their earlier server products, many companies would not know to look for viable alternatives, including (but not limited to) the "Open Source" environments.
Some of our best advocates have managed never to put a foot wrong; I think the LWN writers are always bang on, for example. But hell, some of the best deserve to be forgiven their mistakes, they've made a lot happen and talked a lot of sense. I'll nominate Bruce Perens for this category; I think it's well deserved, and besides, ESR or Chris DiBona would lose $10,000 behind the sofa :-)
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(*Satisfied, in this case, can include people who are unhappy with some aspect of the OS of their choice, but believe in it because they can fix whatever it is that's not so great.)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)