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Stallman, Torvalds, Sakamura win Takeda Prize
hal_mit writes: "Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and
Ken Sakamura have been jointly awarded the first annual
Takeda Foundation Prize, for "The origination and the advancement
of open development models for system software - open architecture,
free software and open source software". This is a major new recognition of the social value of free software and open source."
RMS should be pretty happy about this. Note that they listed him above Linus. That's Stallman/Torvalds.
Yay! Computer and information systems should be free and open! Free IPX congratulates all the winners!
Guess who's going to reject it because it's not called the GNU/Takeda Foundation prize!
Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead.
Is that the Takeda award is granted in 3 different areas.
Sakamura, Stallma, and Torvalds were granted the award in the "Social/Economic Well-Being" category. This means that an international group has recognized that Linux and GNU pose great advantages over the current system of closed/secret source.
Hopefully this recognition, and the 100 million yen prize will encourage further efforts to educate the masses.
Anyone know how much 100 million yen is in american dollars?
It is nice that there are concessions being made at this scale (such as these awards) that the open-source ideology definately has a place in a free-market world. Even nicer is that these awards do not seem to be tied to a singular (or multiple) corperate entity, unlike some other .com love-in awards and groups (like the webbies?)
I'm more interested in seeing who will be getting these awards 5 years from now, once all the really obvious open-source prophets, kings and queens have gotten their past-due.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Craig Mundie wins the CapitalGuy award for the most confusing contributions to the world of closed-source software. Mr. Mundie has generously made a grant to the Microsoft Foundation For Youth-Reeduction, his way of giving back to the loyal community that has honored him thusly.
Marc Andreesen was on the list of nominees this year, but seems to have mysteriously vanished to the Isle of AOL (believed to be located somewhere in the South Media Sea).
(disclaimer: it's supposed to be funny. please, no rotten eggs this time
I would like to introduce the MacGabhain Open Source Award. You may award it to anyone else you like, so long as you don't restrict them from awarding it to others. You may modify the award in any way you like, so long as that award may also be awarded by anyone else to anyone else. You must include the following statement in any issuance of this award:
This award is or includes the MacGabhain Open Source Award. You may grant this award, either in its current form or in any modified form, to anyone provided you allow them to grant this award to anyone else and you include this statement in any granting of the award.
Who is Ken Sakamura?? I probably know who he is, just never put a name with his actions. Did he come up with some major advancement in open-source?
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
... and by Linux I mean Linus.
823,000 USD at today's interbank rate, per Oanda.com. Not too shabby.
Was recently reading a biography of Enrico Fermi. The cash he received from the Nobel prize, plus the jewlery his wife was able to take with her to Sweden for the prize ceremony, allowed them to escape Italy to the US (his wife was Jewish).
sPh
GNU/Takeda? I couldn't care less.... :-)
Why is it so hot? Where am I going? What am I doing in this handbasket?
One day, in the not so far future, I think the ECA will be given this prestigious prize... and everyone will say, "I knew they were gonna get that darned prize all along... if only I had done more to support them in the beginning"...
Or atleast... that's what people who don't know how to support the ECA would say, but luckily you can support the ECA just by spreading word of the Eggplant in all it's forms and variations.... but how do you do that? easy... click Eggplants!.
Eggplants!
Ace
At the Takeda Award ceremony, they should hire some cheesy R&B/rap burnouts and get them to sing:
Take da award. (baaaaybeee)
Yeah, take da prize. (Oooh oooooh)
They chose the three biggest names in open source. Let's see, Alan Cox will win next year, then who is left? They really should have paced themselves, they ran out of the big names far too quickly!
over at (in)adequacy.org. They're going to go ballistic that somebody with big money thinks that they're full of shit slamming linux, et al.
Of course, they'll probably just write the whole thing off as "those stupid geeks" and stick their heads firmly back up their asses....
"GNU is the forerunner of the recent open source movement."
;-)
While most of us would probably agree with that statement, FSF would prefer the use of the term "Free Software Movement".
GNOS: GNOS's Not Open Source
Jason
From their literature it seems that Sakamura's project is influential in Japan, but it seems to be open only in the sense of having an open API. Does anyone know if their source is available?
Bill Gates should win an award for making a good number of PCs Windows based, as without Windows, us tech support guys would have to support 24125812 different operating systems and Mac's would reign supreme.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Hey!
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but...
I *KNOW* these folks have done wonders for us and the industry, but what about Allen? My impression of the guy (only from reading online interviews and such) is that he's not the sort of bloke that would really even think of getting recognised like this (I could be VERY wrong, I don't know the guy). But to recognise Linus (I know, he greatly helped start all this stuff, please don't flame me for that), is really electing a Poster Child (as he has said Himself).
Sorry. I'm just helping vote for the Underdogs...
(Man, I'm losing mod points like crazy latley...)
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
The current linux VM disaster should be considered a terrorist attack
Open source software
and open architecture
Win Takeda Prize
Timeo idiotikOS et dona ferentes
"Giving the "Han Solo" award to the rebel alliance. And if you think about it, that analogy applies in more ways than one"
RMS, on his acceptance speech at Linuxworld 99
Stallman and Torvalds win an Open Source Prize? Shocking! Also in this issue of Duh:
Jim Henson posthumously awarded the Kermit the Frog Award for Puppetry
McDonalds awarded the Ray Crock award for tastiest burger joint with a Clown Themed Mascot
Bill Gates awarded the MCSE lobby's Man of the Millennium, Ballmer heartbroken
m00.
Tornballs is a leading figure in the Open Sores movement.
Remember how, in Star Trek, it was/is the rule when citing history to give 3 sources: two of which you've heard of, and one which is apparently post 21st-century? You know, Kirk will talk about e.g. ``defenders of freedom like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Ankuba of Sirius 43.''
Meaning no disrespect to the fine work of any of the recipients of this generous prize, but...
Anyone know how Linus' book is selling? Is that information available on the web?
With the likely dissolution of Transmeta in about one year's time (at their current cash burn rate) it will be nice to see Linus get this money. From reading his book, I got the impression that Linus spent most of his stock option money on his house.
Also we might as well begin this speculation now: where will Linus work after Transmeta?
Where the hell are my mod points when I need 'em. That was damn funny.
Sheesh, get it right.
It's Linux Torvaldes.
Didn't they teach you in school that it's bad manners to misspell somebody's name?
I am a dev myself but one thing that is too common is the attitude to the other people within te software development process. Testers.
What about testers next? Without them we would still be hacking blindly. Personally I think testers dont get enough recognition. I personally thank testers for helping me write good scaleable, solid, reliable secure code.
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You Takeda Prize.
\(^_^)/
/*drunk.. fix later*/
"This is a major new recognition of the social value of free software and open source."
I hadn't even heard of the Takeda Prize until this article. If someone like me, who it very up to date on technology doesn't have the slightest clue about what the Takeda Prize means, or what it would be for, how can you call it major recognition? If nobody knows about it, it isn't major. There aren't exactly a half-billion people rearranging their dinner schedules to catch the Takeda Prize.
Which leads me to another point; This is the first annual Takeda Prize. Again, I ask, how is this "major recognition"? This isn't the Nobel Prize, which is 100 years old and internationally recognized. This isn't even the Pulitzer Prize, which ANYONE can enter.
Yes, I realize that the Nobel Prize was once new, and it takes time. I just don't see it as major recognition.
BTW: I won this year's First Annual Nimrod Prize for Outstanding Slashdot Commentary. This is a major new recognition of the social value of LDOPA1's digital literature.
See my point?
Moderators: This isn't Flamebait, it's textual criticism. There is a difference.
The Dopester
"Yes, I'm a Karma Whore, but I'm doing it to pay my way through school."
Me either, but i have heard about the obscure coding contest :D
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think the last guy is the token japanese so it isn't all westerners?
For predicting the end of the evil empire.
Just curious, I've heard of TRON, but I don't what specific products actually use it. How many TRON-based Japanese products are in our homes right now?
Jason
* 2001-09-13 23:31:02 Linus and Stallman received award (articles) (rejected)
hawk
Some American visionary presented a year or two ago that Finland should come up with the Nobel prize of engineering. The idea hadn't then been taken yet, and it would be good business PR for the Finnish industry.
There was some enthusiastic public discussion. Industrialists proposed to contribute prize money if the state matched the funds. However, nobody really adopted the project so it was forgotten within a couple of weeks.
So now the Japanese stole the idea. The Finns should have at least patented it since Japan now accepts American-style Interesting Idea patents.
Marko
University of Tokyo professor, who developed the TRON open architecture, a real-time operating system specification for embedded systems. TRON stands for The Real-time Operating system Nucleus. You may have know another version, ITRON, or Industrial TRON. Do a search on TRON and Sakamura and you'll find more info than you need.
Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
Just how many other open source projects have there been that are successful?
Seriously, there just aren't that many projects out there with universal recognition, let alone acceptance.
Here's a prediction for next year's winners:
1. Larry Wall
2. Guido Van Rossum
or
3. whoever invented TCL or Beowolf.
And then we're fresh out of winners for all subsequent years. It'll be worse than the Oscars.
"Look at me, I invented the stove!" -- Ben Franklin
Yeah, patting yourself on the back in the form of gratutious awards is a super nifty keen way to gain "respectability" when most people won't give you the "Time of Day" award.
I'm not ragging on open source it is just that touting Open Source awards given by Open Source people is like buying yourself a birthday present when no one cares enough to give you one. With all due respect, who outside the "Open Source World" gives a rat's shit?
I've heard of Stallman and Sakamura, but who is this Torvalds guy?
:)
Oh the sad irony that the figures are in format based upon a software patent. See the FSF's Why no GIFs? for details. As an aside there is an open source OS that supports the uITRON 3.0 API and POSIX -- RTEMS. Congratulations to all recipients. The projects are definitely worthy. --joel
or a different takeda?
From The Takeda Foundation: "Each award will be accompanied by a monetary prize of 100 million yen."
The XE.com Universal Currency Converter yields these figures:
This is $275,300 USD for each of the awardees.
Yes, the greatest evil in quite some time occurs right down the street from them, and they stand silent. What great guys. Hooray for Kofi!
"recognition of the social value of free software and open source"
:) I guess you don't get out much do you? :)
Social value of free software
Lets see if I get this straight.
The winner of the social/economic prize is not any humanitarian project to help people in the third world getting water and basic living standard.
Noooooo, instead it's people like RMS who is ranting around yelling that people are in prison if they can't see the source-code for the software they use. WHO GIVES A SHIT?
How narrow-sighted are theese people? Get a life!!
Nice award, but the recipients' software isn't truly free. Public Domain is free.
Thanks!
"The Most Fun Possible on 4 wheels" is at SunBuggy in Las Vegas
It should have been: Sakamura/Boxleitner/Stallman/Torvalds and in that order.. Boxleitner fought for freedom at least a year before Stallman.
Trolling for publicity, you filthy critic.
nc
Open Source? Ahhh, after all, TRON was designed to liberate the system from the hideous MCP.
I keeeck your ass with a frisbee!
"SAAAAAAARK! Rise from the dead, SAAAARK!"
at least for federal tax, from what I understand.
If you win a Nobel prize you don't pay tax on it either.
Sort of like giving a prize to the National Socialists for the great advancements in medicine (especially emergency medicine), aircraft technology and cryptography.
I guess that is what seperates peaceful loving and productive people, from tyrants and their supporters (read: those who wish to control others). So, if history has taught me anything, it is that you can get away literally with murder as long as you can spew pretty words and rhetoric (or at least manipulate people with shallow promises, whipping them up into a frenzy of blood lust).
Thanks liberals! Our history would be grand, if it were not for your hypocritical rape of freedom and liberty.
Ahh.. sausage.
:o)
Should be the "takedown" award for killing most small Linux companies and rewarding the gainets, thanks to the GPL.
Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team.
;)
Bruce Perens (hey, I'm using Busybox a lot at the moment).
.. don't even get me started on the names behind such famous products as the *BSD's, Apache, KDE, Gnome, Postfix, GIMP...
(and no, it's not because I'm too lazy to STFW to find out who they actually are