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Stallman, Torvalds, Sakamura win Takeda Prize

Posted by michael on from the just-desserts dept.

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."

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  1. Excellant by SirSlud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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"
  2. And the swag is... by sphealey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

  3. Re:Seriously. by underpaidISPtech · · Score: 2, Interesting
    MS is shady at best. However, most people on this board probably would be without jobs had it not been for W95. That really brought the PC to the home consumer, and the Internet to the masses. No Linux distro to date could do the same even now. (That's not a flame or a troll, it's my opinion. It belongs here because we are discussing technology not religion).

    Now as for tech support, some AC below cried about tech guys giving bad support. That's not bad support. That's survival. After dealing with customers long enough, the problems are all the same, and the solution invariably simplifies. I used to bend over backwards and set up every goddamn dial-up/internet/email thing to make their point and click online experience easier, less intimidating and convenient. No more. I burnt out. Even windows is too hard for people to use. It's not bad support, it's tailoring the solution to the LCD. If you cant get your mail and haven't even bothered to try any other internet activity to isolate the cause yourslef, and call me within 2 seconds of arriving from your vacation and your mail flunks, then you all you wil get from me is a request to try agin and call back.
    And I'm sorry you got modded as flamebait, apparently there are only two topics on /. -- discussion that evangelises Linux and discussion that disparages MS.

    I would prefer to play Sysadmin on *nix, but I would loathe to do *nix helldesk for clueless lusers.

  4. I sent this one month ago by ecesar · · Score: 0, Interesting

    * 2001-09-13 23:31:02 Linus and Stallman received award (articles) (rejected)