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OSI Announces Open Source Awards
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)."
*ducks*
$10,000?! WOW!
But really, if one was to write such a super OSS program, wouldn't he be hired by a big corporation and paid at least ten times that amount?
ok maybe not but close enough
Pick me! Pick me! Oh, wait a second... my project isn't popular and no one contributes to it.
With a 10,000 USD incentive, maybe the gnome developers will actually give what their users wan't such a proper file dialog, split pane in nautilus, a non crippled file-roller and maybe they will give their users a GUI to configure advanced settings without having to go through gconf.
On the other hand, the kde guys could replace that cheezy keramik with a real style as defualt (.net and alloy are good candidates)
The Razzies for this will be called "The Pre-Alpha-Aplha Awards", given out to OSS projects that never make it out of "-1, thinking about it"
Strugglin' late first post
What part of "first" don't you get?
You likewise fail it
Dammit, everybody knows those foreigners can't program. Best take their fucking visa's and hire some real Americans. Get some work done around here.
It's 3:04 - do you know where your karma is? Well then burn it!
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
I thought we decided that Sun was evil this week. Did I miss a memo?
What were they?
Stinkiest breath goes to LinuxLover93!
Palest skin goes to M$_SUX_LOLOLOL46!
Gayest program on Sourceforge is 2,000 way tie!
Creepiest stalkes Open Sores hippy goes to fyodor!
Most non-sensical rant goes to RMS!
Most uninformed about anything in reality is a tie between all slashbots.
again apache, i'm tired of these awards that go always to the same ppl.
Give $10,000 to Slashdot so we can start cloning CowboyNeal! er i mean,
CowboyNeal $10,000 to CowboyNeal so CowboyNeal can CowboyNeal CowboyNeal CowboyNeal!
j.m.
What don't they give awards for nowadays?
This post, Winner, 2003
Best Slashdot Post
Best Use of Consonants in Slashdot Post
Louis K. Albright Award for Achievement in Punctuation
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Your paranoia is about as subtle as the alien probe in your neck.
Well Sun isnt as great as Microsoft but, it is just as cool.
-- "Why would you quote your self?" -Me.
It's because it's name is more than 3 syllables, not even including its KBuzzwErD or GNpUn!
Banaaaana!
The Open Source movement, otherwise known as 'Free Software', has been a topic of considerable debate on the Internet's most controversial site. The majority of this debate has centered around the technical merits of the software, with the esteemed editors argueing against adopting Linux by employing the full depth of their considerable intellects, and the other side hurling death threats and similar invective. This has allowed many who would not otherwise receive quality information about Open Source software to be made aware of many of its ramifications, but one issue has been left alone: The overt racism that is deeply embedded in the movement.
Allow me to explain.
Alan Cox; Richard Stallman; Bruce Perens; Wichert Akkerman; Miguel DeIcaza.
What do you see in this list of names? Are there any African-Americans on it? Absolutely not, none of those names sound like one a self-respecting black person would have! No Maurice, no Luther, no Lil' Kim. There are many other lists such as this, you can see one here. Flip through each page, do you see anything other than white faces? Of course you don't, because Open Source and its adherents are ardent racists and they absolutely forbid access to the sacred 'kernel' by any person of color.
Lets look at another list, this time a compendium of the companies using Linux. Are there any black owned companies on that list? Nooooooo. How about these companies? They all have something to do with Open Source software, any of them owned by an African-American? No again. Here is an extensive collection of photographs from a LUG (Linux User Gathering) meeting, more can be viewed at that link. What is odd about these pictures, and every other photograph I have ever seen of a LUG meeting, is that there is not one single black person to be seen, and probably none for miles.
More racist overtones can be found by examining the language of Open Source. They often refer to 'white hat' hackers. These 'white hats' scurry about the Internet doing good, but illegal, acts for their fellow man. In stark contrast we find the 'black hat' hackers. They destroy the good works of others by breaking into systems, stealing data, and generally causing havoc. These two terms reflect the mindset of most Linux developers. White means good, black means bad. Anywhere there is black, there is uncontrollable destruction and lawlessness. Looking further we see black lists that inform other users of 'bad' hardware, Samba, an obvious play on the much hated Little Black Sambo book, Mandrake, which I won't explain except to say that the French are notorious racists. This type is linguistic discrimination is widespread throughout the Open Source culture, lampooned by many of its more popular sites.
It is also a fact that all Unix 'distros' contain a plethora of racist commands with not so hidden symbolism.
It can hardly be coincidence that the prime operating system of choice of the 'open source supremacists' - Linux, features commands which are poorly disguised racist acronyms. For example: 'awk' (All White Klan) , 'sed' (shoot nEgroes dead), 'ln' (lynch negroes), 'rpm' (raical purity mandatory), 'bash' (bring a slave home), 'ps' (persecute sambo), 'mount' (murder or unseat nubians today), 'fsck' (favored supreme Christian klan). I could go on and on about the latent racist symbolism in Linux, but I fear it would take weeks to enumerate every incidence.
Is there a single unix command out there that does not have some hidden racist connotation ? Suffice it to say that the racism pervades Linux like a particularly bad smell. Can you imagine the effect of running such a racist operating system on the impressionable mind ? I don't have to remind you that transmitting subliminal messages is banned in the USA, and yet here we have an operating system that appears to be one enormous submliminal ad for the Klan!
One of the few selling points of Open Source software is that it is available in many different languages. Browsing through the list I see that absolutely none a
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Go OSI.
Perhaps this will cause even more people to start codeing!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Captain: Take off every sig !!
You have surely loosed teh grammar competition!
Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) A 13-year-old boy whose bizarre ailment has a fly-like insect emerging out of him is far from being cured as doctors struggle to detect the source of the parasite.
The fully-grown flies, as doctors described the parasites, have been emerging out of Chandan Goswami's genitals and flying off for more than two weeks now.
Chandan, now receiving treatment at a state-run hospital in West Bengal's Burdwan district, is said to be suffering from a condition called myiasis, a disease seen mostly in Central and Latin America.
In myiasis, the larvae of a type of fly invade a human or animal body, dead or alive. The deposited eggs can then enter the body through pores, the mucous membrane or even the mouth. The hatched larvae then emerge out the host's skin and pupate.
However, in Chandan's case, whole flies complete with wings are emerging out of his body and flying off.
"This is very, very rare. We are trying to find out how the fly entered the boy's body," says Sudhansu Pan, the surgeon attending Chandan.
Doctors carried out a cystoscopy to clear the boy's urinary tract, but the treatment has failed because two more flies emerged out of his penis on Monday.
Doctors admitted they have not been able to identify where the parasite deposit lay inside Chandan's body.
Health authorities have formed a medical board of seven doctors to treat Chandan. Doctors were also "coordinating" with physicians abroad who have experience in dealing with myiasis.
In myiasis, the maggots usually are found underneath the skin and are removed by minor surgery. But whole flies emerging out of a human body is rare, doctors said.
Chandan told doctors he first felt pain in his abdomen almost a month ago. And then he saw the flies intermittently coming out of his penis.
He told his parents, but they didn't initially believe him. Earlier this month, they saw the strange occurrence and took their son to Burdwan hospital, where doctors too were stunned to see the rare case.
This could entice Microsoft employees to leak windows code! At least in my world it could. You can't have mine! Get your own unicorns! Ack! Spiders!
Yeah, but what's the $/day living cost for someone that has regular, unrestricted access to a computer ?!!!
That's why it is called flamebait, spunk covered cockgobbler.
Don't throw a party for the winners, it's _*VERY*_ large leagel liabillity so DON'T do it. Here is my experiance about throwing a developers party....
First, there was a plan: how to bring together the different development groups at work? My boss said there was a sort of tension he thought could be eased by some social interaction. Not easy. Almost all of the different development groups despised each other, each thinking its "art" was more important and eloquent than the others'.
There was the kernel extension developer group, coding mostly in C and some PowerPC and x86 assembler. They worked on making our PCI board work with Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, and Solaris. They worked "special hours," coming in at one and staying late, supposedly, until seven or eight at night. They enjoyed Jizz cola and had a penchant for ThinkGeek t-shirts and cracking jokes about Win32 API calls and the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.
We had XML developers too. They worked on our website, documentation formatting, and simple apps to configure the driver software. They used HTML, XSL, JavaScript, and a bit of Java. They typically dressed casually, drank coffee and tea, and liked to work straight from the spec: no "Learn XSL in 30 Days" books were to be found in their cubicle farm.
Then we had the guys who wrote full-out UNIX apps. These guys and the products they wrote had been acquired from another company, and were the source of most of the tension: they'd never really been integrated into our group except that they were physically present with the rest of us. They all had beards or mullets or long, unwashed hair. Many wore suspenders or the afore-mentioned ThinkGeek clothes; some even had Penguin tatooes or small C app code tattooed on them. Their cubicle farm was known for the bleating laughter that exploded when one of them found a "silly" bug on someone else's code, and for the rotten, fetid stench that could only be compared to three-day-old shit reeking from inside a rotting corpse's abdominal cavity.
So, in order to get the guys to "know each other" my boss had asked me to organize a during-hours, alcohol-friendly party. My ideas ranged from a keg or two to live entertainment, AKA strippers. But as to what to get them to actually talk to each other in a human manner I had no clue. So I let it go til the last minute and decided to let my inherent creativity mull it over in the back of my head.
When the day of the party had arrived, the catering company brought in a few trays of lunch meat, chicken, pizza, and side dishes, I had picked up the kegs (all four) from the local brewery, and the big-screen TV and DVD were set up ready to blast the Matrix into the eyes and ears of my co-workers. The eagerness in the the air was encouraging and I thought that loosening up and smiles going on even now were a good sign. I even saw some of the guys who'd known each other previously begin to bunch up, bringing along the co-workers they knew from everyday work.
The first thing everyone did was hit the food line, loading up their plates and grabbing a cup for beer to wash it down with. A few approached me and thanked me for the food; it seems appeasing the belly really did tame the beast. After a few minutes of silence and eating and a few second and third courses, they guys were ready to sit down and be entertained. After asking if anyone needed anything else before the movie started, the lights went out and the Matrix began playing. I heard a few enthusiastic comments and jokes being told.
About half-way through the movie I noticed a lot of the guys, especially from the UNIX app group, were getting up and presumably going to the restroom. No suprise, as the second keg was history by now and the third was probably half-way gone. I also noticed some of the guys bumping into things and stumbling. Alcohol's the social lubricant, eh? Well, not long after, my bladder beckoned and I answered. As I made my way to the restroom, I had a self-satisfied smile on my face: my littl
Open source software is generally written by much more than one person. Would the winner have to split her winnings with hundreds of others, or would the award go to whoever led the project?
By participating in stuff like this, all we are doing is getting more profits into the hands of big hardware and software integration companies, and getting more people laid off. The idea of Open Source is great for these companies because they dont have to pay for development costs, and they can make bigger profits that way. Who gets the shaft? software developers like you and me. Every body else is happy because they can get very cheap software on multiple patforms all they paid for a few core developers.
This OSS stuff has has done to software developers what MP3 has done to musicians. Eveybody is happy with the free stuff except the innovators who have to scrape by.
Dont fall into this trap, sponsered by greedy hardware companies that couldnt care less about paying for software.
just sayin'
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
I mean the 7 layer stack is nice and all, but don't they know that TCP/IP is the standard these days?
Makes a lot of sense. Venture firms in general have been hurting lately thanks to the depressing influence of the-monopoly-who-shall-not-be-named. If a little seed money can help break things open, it could pay off handsomely. Of course, having first crack at people with serious ability is probaby worth the ante all by itself.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
The Open Source Awards categories include:
The Grand Master Award: This award will be given to persons with an outstanding record of contributions to the open-source and Internet cultures. Ideal candidates will have a record not only of technical excellence but of community leadership and service. Along with the recognition as Grand Master, the recipient will receive $10,000 and an invitation to serve as an elector on the collegium that issues the awards.
Merit Awards: These awards will be given four times per year for work on specific open-source or network-service projects. Recipients will be recognized at the annual event and will receive a cash award of $500.
The Special Award - These awards may occasionally be conferred at the Awards Committee's discretion as a way of recognizing praiseworthy projects or conduct not covered by the existing regular categories and experimenting with new categories. Recipients will be recognized at the annual event and will receive a cash award of $1500.
This is 5, infolmative, it teh TLUTH!
Man, he really was an idiot. Real coders start coding for way more than $10,000...I'm talking six figure salary coders...who can actually spell "coding" (not just "codeing" like that idiot) - not like these OSS hacks.
Moderators: mod parent up!
ms uses linux
I thought we decided that Sun was evil this week. Did I miss a memo?
Heh, you're expecting proper cronological order from this editorial staff? Oh, but don't worry- they'll get the order right next time they post the stories. Failing that, third time's the charm.
Please help metamoderate.
Jeremy Allison, one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a group of programmers developing an open source Windows(tm) compatible file and print server product for UNIX systems. Allison handles the release engineering and the co-ordination of Samba development efforts worldwide and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using the Samba code commercially.
Larry Augustin, a venture partner at Azure Capital Partners where he specializes in software, systems, and related IT infrastructure technologies. He currently serves on the boards of directors of VA Software Corporation (as chairman), the Open Source Development Lab, Linux International, and the Free Standards Group. Previously he was conference chairman for LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, and served on the conference advisory board. Augustin has appeared as a regular columnist in Linux Magazine, has written numerous articles, and is the author of "Hardware Design and Simulation in VAL/VHDL," published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Jim Gettys, a member of HP Labs' Cambridge Research Lab, currently working on making open source systems safe on handheld computers. He helped found the handhelds.org community. In 1984, Gettys started the X Window System that forms the base technology of the Linux and UNIX desktops, on which Gnome and KDE are based. Gettys worked at W3C on loan from Compaq Computer Corporation's Industry Standards and Consortia group from 1995-1999. He is the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification (now an IETF Draft Standard).
Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick, author, consultant, and professor on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast file system and was the research computer scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. He has been a strong advocate for the open-source movement since its inception in the mid 1980s.
Keith Packard, developer of open source software since 1986. Packard has focused on the X Window System since 1987, designing and executing large parts of the current implementation. He is currently employed by HP as a member of the Cambridge Research Laboratory working on pervasive and mobile computing. In 1999, he received a Usenix Lifetime Achievement award for his work on the X Window System.
Eric S. Raymond, observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has proven so effective in the evolution of the Internet. His own software projects include one of the Internet's most widely-used email transport programs. Raymond is the co-founder of the Open Source Awards.
Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, one of the major free scripting languages. He created Python in the early 1990s at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands, and is still actively involved in the development of the language. van Rossum recently accepted a position at Elemental Security, a start-up founded by Dan Farmer.
I've seen that GNOME file dialog before.
Windows 3.1. Yeah. It was teh suxor there too.
KDE though ripped off Win98...
Gotta stop cloning Big Evil, guys!!
-uso.
Dreams, dreams, don't doubt dreams, dreaming children's dreaming dreams. Sailor Moon SS
What don't they give awards for nowadays?
Best Slashdot Post
Best Use of Consonants in Slashdot Post
You're forgetting the obvious award for our dear editors!
Most # of Dupes
Please help metamoderate.
We can't do it all alone!
The nominees in the category of Longest Lived Project to Never Release 1.0 are -
And the winner is ... the HURD! (Cue music as
RMS goes up to the stage).
</flamebait>
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
That's one of the worst posts I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
Elfwind the Sorcerer: How can there be trolls? I cast a spell of warding before we set out on this article!
/. article *before* you cast the spell, so now there's trolls, okay?
DM Taco: The trolls appeared in a previous
Elfwind: Fine. I cast a spell. Stinking cloud!
DM Taco: Your spell has no adverse effect. In fact, the trolls seem to kind of like it.
Elfwind: Blast these foul beasts! Where is my warrior-friend Ironfist of the mountain?
Ironfist: *yawn* What's all the racket? You need somethin' boss?
Elfwind: I need a little distraction while I mix some components for a fireball spell!
Ironfist: You got it sir! Attacks the trolls
Elfwind: Mixes a few spell components
Ironfist: destroys all the trolls with ease
Ironfist: That was easy....those must've been low-level trolls.
Elfwind: Oh shit! Where did all the trolls go?
DM Taco: In your surprise, you've fumbled the components of your fireball spell, sending your entire party into the sweet embrace of death. Game over.
Entire Party: *CURSES*
The End
And the moral of the story? Always follow the recipe.
I'd like to see the nominees battle it out in a Survivor-type contest before the cash is awarded.
Northbound SR 51 to be closed between I-10 and Colter Street, all ramps to enter SR 51 north closed July 12-14
July 10, 2003
Construction on State Route 51 will close the freeway's northbound lanes between I-10 and Colter Street and all ramps to enter northbound SR 51 this weekend while crews install drainage pipes under the freeway, widen the bridge over McDowell Road and make repairs to the freeway pavement.
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) says northbound SR 51 will be closed between I-10 and Colter Street, just north of Camelback Road, from 1 a.m. Saturday (July 12) until 5 a.m. Monday (July 14).
All ramps from I-10 and Loop 202 to go north on SR 51 will be closed. The westbound I-10 entrance ramp at Washington Street and the northbound SR 51 entrance ramps at McDowell, Thomas and Indian School roads also will be closed all weekend.
Drivers will be detoured north on 16th Street and 24th Street while SR 51 is closed.
Southbound SR 51 will be narrowed to one lane between Colter Street and Highland Street from 1 a.m. Saturday (July 12) until 5 a.m. Monday (July 14).
The southbound SR 51 ramp to go west on I-10 and head toward the Deck Park Tunnel will be closed from 1 a.m. Saturday (July 12) until 5 a.m. Monday (July 14). Drivers will be detoured to eastbound I-10 and can use Washington Street to reach the downtown area.
McDowell Road will be closed on both sides of SR 51 from 8 p.m. Friday (July 11) until 5 a.m. Monday (July 14) while crews restripe McDowell and widen the SR 51 bridge over McDowell. All freeway entrance and exit ramps at McDowell Road also will be closed.
The construction work is part of the $75 million SR 51 project to add HOV lanes in each direction between I-10 and Shea Boulevard, higher sound walls, rubberized asphalt pavement and operational improvements to the freeway.
SR 51 construction information is available at www.SR51.com or by calling the project hotline at 602-248-3098. The project is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2004
Scientists today found a link between schizophrenia and stories about Sun microsystems.
13:00 Sun contributes funds to SCO who is evil encarnate. Sun determined to be son of Satan.
16:00 Sun contributes funds to open source award foundation. Sun determined to be worthy of sainthood.
18:00 Sun steals candy from baby.
20:00 Sun rescues puppy from drain pipe.
I feel like I am in a Jim Carrey movie!
Why "she"? Why assume it would be a female?
Use the singular "they".
They have quite a few Windows drivers and apps working now.
1: write some open source code
2: ????
3: PROFIT s
Cus we all know who would win it :)
It's Pizzaware!
(see point 1.8 for details)
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Open Source fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Linux box (a P4 3200 w/1024 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Athlon 900 running Windows XP, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Linux box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Mozilla will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even vi is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Linux machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Linux box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Linux machine's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3200 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Linux is a "superior" OS.
Open Source addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an Open Source over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Big factors keeping people from using it:
1. no GUI
2. requires a local PostgreSQL install
Both will be fixed soon by the addition of a Swing GUI and a publically available DB server.
Bet it still won't be very popular though...
Who on earth would contribute toe something called E-BLA.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
But the question is, where is he cumming from? Perhaps a place where people cut'n'paste multiple pages from the article into the comments to reap twice the karma!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I bet these people would be happy to contribute toe.
Like I give a shit about the karma. And your joke about my last name is *so* funny, I've never heard thast before.
I cut the press release up into pieces so that (a) you didn't read all the press release BS and (b) so that it was digestable by the Slashdot masses who rarely read articles.
John.
An award often also communicates some kind of an ideological thingy. It would be interesting to see what would happen in terms of community reactions when OSI awards an OSS project that isn't Free Software.
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
He wasn't making fun of your last name, he was pushing his porn site. Which isn't half bad, fwiw.
No, I'm not him, either.
They know that companies can make great produucts and a lot of money using open source tools. Plus, if they get the companies they invest in to use said tools, they can use their capital on more important things, like Aeron chairs... oops wrong decade!
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Open-source + Free Software = Software Revolution ...at least I think so :)
You know... The same thoughts entered my mind when I first encountered the whole notion of open-source and free software years ago. For the sake of simplicity, I am going to replace open-source and free software as OSFSF and am going to assume that they are identical in the context of this article (I think it is a valid position to take, especially since most open-source software is free).
I am still not sure what to make of it. I don't know if it is "good" or "bad".
I suspect that my view of the market is very different from yours. I'm a socialist and on the far left so I don't care about corporations or the state of "wealth". In addition, I have been unemployed since I graduated from school 2 years ago so I might not even find a job in this field regardless of the impact of OSFSF. However, I do care about one thing: workers. I am not a nationalist but I would like to see workers, in this case software developers, be able to make a decent living (don't ask what is decent--for now assume it is the same as your definition). I really do not want to see people lose their jobs, whether it is due to out-sourcing to foreign countries, or due to OSFSF.
the BAD
Your MP3 argument is totally irrelevant. Nevertheless, I understand your concern***. I think software developers WILL lose jobs due to OSFSF. I am pretty sure of it. For instance, if OSFSF replaces Microsoft software, Microsoft will lay off most of its workforce (I imagine at least 20,000 will be let go). It is even worse for small firms who survive by developing proprietary technology (generally protected by patents) to serve a particular industry or niche. OSFSF will likely destroy these companies, meaning more lay-offs. The bad thing here is that the people laid off will have nowhere to go since the OSFSF communities don't generally pay anyone (some are employees of corporations but they are only a few). If this was all there to it, it would be easy to say that OSFSF is bad for societies--at least from a left-wing perspective. But is there more to it?
the GOOD
There is one thing that may render the previous worker argument moot. Someone above who responded before me touched on this. Is it not possible that a new structure may be created in the software industry? After thinking about it for years, I have come to the conclustion that the software industry's structure will change. In fact, I think this is not a just a possibility but a highly likely scenario. I think the workers will be fine under my perceived scenario.
What do I think will/is happen/happening? I think there will be a software revolution due to OSFSF. It will be a MAJOR change. What I think will happen is that software developers will not work for proprietary corporations that try to maintain competitive advantage--as a matter of fact survive--by keeping their technology "secret". Instead, you will end up with a society where software developers will be hired for their skills and capabilities to work on OSFSF. THe firms that provide solutions will not benefit by keeping things secretive; instead, they survive by providing total solutions or valued added services (ie. system integration, custom programming, feature development, support, training, etc). People who are respected and get jobs will be those that CAN do the job. If you can program well, or provide support, or add features to a free/low-cost product, you will be valued. I think programmers and others in the tech industry will be fine. Those that suffer will likely be existing corporations.
I think OSFSF will have an impact similar to what science did in the 1700's (or thereabouts). The software revolution will be similar to the scientific revolution of that time period. If you recall, what the scientific revolution did was to change the structure of society. Before the scientific revolution, you had a lot of shops/stores/whate
......The worst thing in my life happened when the stock market started mattering more than the economy
Just put a paypal or amazon or some other payment link on your page OR your special address to get mail from the internet jungle.
For groups you'll have to figure out how to divide the money, just give me a place to send the dough.
I donate all the time, it's small sure but I do.
In the past few months I've donated about 110 dollars. I donate to ANYTHING that gives me value and that has a way for me to do so.
I like doing it.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Moron.
HAND.
The First First Post Award, given to the earliest first post to be posted.
--Quentin
Bah. As an American, I must say that the thing we most need to know is - What will Linus be wearing!
Wonder what Linus will wear!
Anyone noticed that the 7 person committee includes Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick (4.2BSD fast filesystem), Eric S. Raymond (loves python), Guido van Rossum (python creator)?
Wonder how that would affect projects that rival those people's projects to get awards? Say, Hans Reiser (reiserfs), or anything related to Perl?
LinuxFund to some extend gives money to potential projects but I find their voting process very poor. Not because it's bad but because few people, not themselves trying to get money, bother voting. The end result is that people that get their friends to go vote on their project get votes and nobody else does. If you really want to help lesser projects I suggest you vote at linuxfund.org and maybe get the LinuxFund credit card.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
In 2002, the prize money was $25,000. Prior to that it was $10,000. In the late nineties it was $5000. In fact, it was $5000 for most of the time since the award was instituted.
Given that, a start of $10,000 is pretty darn generous.
There's a similar Open Source award (although no fat sacks of cash included). Just a few days ago the ActiveState Active Awards were handed out at OSCON. These awards are given to those actively contributing in the Open Source world.
It is an interesting coincidence that the story "Sun expands Unix deal with SCO" appeared on slashdot yesterday and Sun is a sponsor of the OSI award.
CNET Reported:
A previously secret licensee of SCO Group's Unix intellectual property has revealed its identity: Unix leader Sun Microsystems.
Sun hasn't been ashamed to try to profit from the effects of that suit. It jumped at the chance to declare itself a safe haven for spooked technology buyers: "Sun's complete line of Solaris and Linux products...are covered by Sun's portfolio of Unix licensing agreements. Solaris and Sun Linux represent safe choices for those companies that develop and deploy services based on Unix systems," Sun declared the day SCO filed suit against IBM.
"Now we know why Sun was so absolutely confident about where they stand in this whole thing that they were essentially able to turn it into some marketing and sales FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) of their own," Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said.
So it appears that OSI has been arguing that The SCO Group's Intellectual Property is worthless and taking money from Sun who is using it for PR. On one hand Sun is trying to ingratiate itself with the Linux community by funding an award and the other hand the PR is FUD against both Linux and IBM's AIX. Esr did get some press about the award, but then he has always been good at self-promotion, and not word one about the glaring conflicts of interest.
Thus I hereby nominate esr's OSI and Sun for the OSCON blue ribbon for:
1. Questionable Situational Ethics
2. Self Destructive FUD
3. Conflict of Interest
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.
The developers have a mortal fear of releasing 1.0, apparently afraid of being deluged with people bitching about mplayer's constant segfaults. They seem to be moving, asymptotically, towards 1.0, as LaTeX does towards pi.
that's astounding. a roomfull of phonIE stock markup billyonerrors, & they waNT to 'give' "up to" 10k for sum of yOUR saycrud kode. we're frenetic with the degree of their corepirate nazi sucksass.
we've (that's just us) contributed multiples of that amount in goods/services/time/resources without so much as a thank you from the 'community', let alone, some storIE on cnn. yikes. fauxking FraUDs they are. tell 'em robbIE.
consult with/trust yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. that's the spirit.
the daze of the phonIE payper liesense corepirate nazis is WANing into coolapps. lookout bullow.
If you gobble the cock properly, you don't get covered with spunk.
Just thought I'd let you know.
No, this week we're bashing smart-ass clowns who've got nothing better to do than make fun of other slashdotters.