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Apple Announces Open Source Design Award

Posted by pudge on from the open-source-for-dummies dept.

Pzykotic writes: "Apple today announced a new category to their yearly Apple Design Awards: 'Best Mac OS X Open Source Port' for individuals or collaborations. The winners will be announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, during the week of this May 6-10. Winners receive an 'Ultimate' (Dual 1 GHz/GeForce4 TI/DVD-R/etc) Power Mac G4 system with an Apple Cinema Display."

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  1. Is it me or does apple kick ass these days... by 3nd3r · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know I started with PC's and Linux - but now for every right reason Apple has convinced me they are visionary and have been for the past 4 years. I even had a version 2 Imac that I sold because I didn't use it - OS 9 didn't give me enough #... Now all I want is an Ibook with enough ram to run Cubase VST at 24bits.

  2. Re:Obvious by bsartist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ummm... Apple ported GCC and friends themselves. They're even working with the GCC team to get their PPC optimization code into the main branch. It's certainly an accomplishment, but I doubt that even Steve Jobs has the bawls to give the award to himself. :-)

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  3. What's with the "for-dummies" bit? by Evro · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Apple Announces Open Source Design Award
    Posted by pudge on Fri February 22, 07:06 AM
    from the open-source-for-dummies dept.

    Apple IDE Cannot Access Beyond 137GB
    Posted by pudge on Thu February 21, 07:38 PM
    from the hard-drives-for-dummies dept.

    Apple/Genentech BLAST Boosts Performance
    Posted by pudge on Thu February 21, 10:15 AM
    from the dna-sequencing-for-dummies dept.
    Is that intended as a joke? If so then it's not funny. If it's not a joke then I can't imagine what the motivation behind it would be.
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