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Dotgnu Coding Competition

Posted by michael on from the code-warrior dept.

Honestly writes "Apparently DotGNU seems to be offering more than the 'warm fuzzy feeling' to its contributors. Somebody has funded about $4500 worth of prizes for code contributions. The developers have confirmed that the $$$ is in FSF Hands (good hands, I suppose). Here is the split up of prizes. It's almost strange to earn money writing open source. Especially when you're not even employed by dotgnu. Anyway all I can say is ,I like it. It's ideal for a grad student with lots of free time. But hardly anyone seems to have seen the Newsforge posts (except maybe me)."

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  1. Re:Not so strange. by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linus doesnt get paid to write free software. He writes VLIW shit for Transmeta last I heard, and I dont believe any of that is Free.

    Even Mr Lunix needs a real job to pay the bills.

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  2. DotGNU/GNU by SuperBanana · · Score: 0, Troll
    Apparently DotGNU seems to be offering more than the 'warm fuzzy feeling' to its contributors.

    That's DotGNU/GNU you insensitive clod!

    So much for the warm fuzzy feelings.

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  3. Pfffff by Laconian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Look at those paltry prizes. Even if I was the 1337est programmer on Earth, I still wouldn't quit my day job for Open Sores. Add another zero to the end and let's talk. Or three. Or six. $2000.000000! Now we're talking.