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OSI Announces Open Source Awards

Posted by michael on from the beanies-slightly-ahead-of-their-time dept.

JohnGrahamCumming writes "There's a story running on ZDNet about how OSI is going to be giving Open Source Awards with cash prizes of up to $10,000. The idea is to create the "Nobel Prizes" of Open Source. Announcement was made yesterday as OSCON with some big names backing the awards (e.g. Sun, OSAF and (interestingly) a major venture capital firm USVP)."

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  1. and the winner is!!!! by trnsfer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    again apache, i'm tired of these awards that go always to the same ppl.

  2. The idea is to create the "Nobel Prizes" of OS by incongruity2003 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Truly arrogant of esr and his followers at OSI - why didn't they just call it the ESR awards - after all he is going to be taking credit for the award winners work anyway.

    Nobel made his fortune on dynamite. Esr is a dot com has been in terms of his fortune, but he does have a chance at making some small fortune by selling his silicon snake oil.

    What I find particularly amusing about this is that Linus or RMS could win a Nobel Prize and esr might be a footnote in the history books as one who attempts to rewrite history and take credit for the work of others.