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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. Ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But hardly anyone seems to have seen the Newsforge posts (except maybe me)

    Don't kid yourself. Everyone saw them but, nobody gave a shit!

  2. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Uh, sorry, couldn't come up with a witty comment. My apologies.

    1. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Didn't you get the memo? It's now, "I for one welcome our new FSF overlords"

    2. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I for one welcome our new Soviet Russian overlords.

    3. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I miss the SOVIET RUSSIA jokes. At least some of them were clever or at least somewhat amusing. Where some of the SOVIET RUSSIA jokes could have been written by a fairly simple script, all of the overlord jokes could have been.

    4. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by DoctorPepper · · Score: -1, Troll

      How about...

      "In Soviet Russia, Dot GNU's you!"

      --

      No matter where you go... there you are.
    5. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I, for one, welcome our SOVIET RUSSIA joke overlords.

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...the FSF pays YOU !

  4. 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.

    --
    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  5. DotGNU Control Freaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ryhs and gopal are a bunch of control freaks who belittle any contributors to DotGNU calling these contribors "minor". Read the old mailing lists and you will see. This is why i have refused to contribute to their broken implementation.

  6. 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.

    --
    Please help metamoderate.
  7. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hahahah ;) .. i applaud your words .. my current
    job does Not suck - i work from home and set my
    own hours with plenty of compensation .. and i
    don't do it by writing free software ;) ..

    i just like to stir up shit :)

  8. You cannot trust stallman with any funds at all by AN0THER+NAME · · Score: -1, Troll

    Look at the man for fuck's sake. Look at his glazed eyes and tell me he wouldn't turn around and buy $4500 worth of LSD. Look at his greasy clothes and tell me it wuld take less than $4500 for him to get even a handjob from the loweest kind of prostitute. Look at his gut and tell me he wouldn't go on an eating binge and buy $4500 worth of twinkies.

    The only thing we can safely assume is that he would NOT spend a single penny on soaps, perfumed or regular...or on any hygene products at all.

  9. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FSF overlords welcome YOU!

  10. 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.