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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. fp by Pompatus · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's ideal for a grad student with lots of free time.

    Never been to grad school, huh?

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  2. Thanks for spoiling it! by Lord+of+the+Fries · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Oh great! So much for the easy win for the few of us that did know about it. :/

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  3. Re:If... by wik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Little do you know, but the real prize is RMS coming to your front door with the FSF Source Patrol van, carrying an oversized copy of the GPL.

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  4. What about this Malloc routine.. by adeyadey · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about this Malloc routine I've just written?
    Do I get a prize?

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  5. Not so strange. by jtalkington · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's almost strange to earn money writing open source.

    No, it's not. Linus, RMS, AC, BP, among many others have been getting paid to write free software for years.
    Part of the stigma associated with OSS is that since it's associated with "volunteers," it is considered hobby level. Lots of people get paid to work on OSS, and ever increasing large software companies (e.g. IBM and Apple) have staff members working exclusively on OSS.