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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."
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?
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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).
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Funny, but the award was for techno-entrepreneurial achievement in social/economic well-being.
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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"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?
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What a load of crap.
No, seriously.
Due to network effects, it's likely that there would be one or few dominant home operating systems anyway. But without monopolistic practices, they'd have to actually compete, instead of coasting.
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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
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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?
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