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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."
Yay! Computer and information systems should be free and open! Free IPX congratulates all the winners!
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
Flamebait? I'm not saying Windows is the best OS, or that Microsoft's business practices are totally legal, but think of a world with many OSes for the home user. Sure, there are the *nix OSes, but imagine more. Imagine if there were say, 10 different OS classes besides Mac and *nix. The Internet would be a much different place..maybe not in a good way. Even though Windows is forced down our throats, it gives us a familiar base on which to plan/develop.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?