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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. Flabbergasted! by mao+che+minh · · Score: 4, Funny
    $10,000! That's more cash than most OSS developers see in a full year! An Indian programming outfit could run off that kind of funding for years to come! Go ZDNet and Sun!

    *ducks*

  2. Hooray! by Yoda2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pick me! Pick me! Oh, wait a second... my project isn't popular and no one contributes to it.

    1. Re:Hooray! by MikeFM · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I wouldn't suggest they award the money to unpopular projects (mine are mostly that way too.. well people use em but seldom contribute) but I would suggest they exclude projects that have funding. I guess I'm suggesting they not give money towards Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Perl, Python and various other tier one projects. Better to encourage people to write apps that are needed but not as popular. Spread the wealth a little.

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  3. So then by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

  4. Sun by josh+crawley · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought we decided that Sun was evil this week. Did I miss a memo?

  5. coolio by radiumhahn · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  6. From the awards ceremony ... by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 4, Funny

    The nominees in the category of Longest Lived Project to Never Release 1.0 are -

    • Enlightenment
    • the HURD
    • JDOM

    And the winner is ... the HURD! (Cue music as RMS goes up to the stage).

    </flamebait>

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