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Winners of O'Reilly's COMDEX Contest Anounced

Posted by Cliff on from the congratulations dept.

Alexander Limi writes: "The winners of the O'Reilly "Open Source Goes to COMDEX" Contest have been announced. The lucky ones are: GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, Zope, GIMP and our own project, Plone. Congratulations to all the deserving projects! Check out the announcement here."

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  1. And the prizes go to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And the prizes go to the only significant Open Source projects! Way to go, guys!

  2. HEY CLIFF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    SUCK COCK!

  3. Not the best image possible for OSS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lets see what we've got:

    Two different desktop environments. Just in case you weren't confused about Open Source already.

    The project that Linux Torvalds said was one of the disasters of Open Source. Well, I wouldn't have picked that one.

    And finally, a web content framework with poor performance and worse scalability, and a content management system based on it.

    I hope this means that more meritous projects, such as the Linux kernel and the Apache web server are already represented there independently. I mean, the only good thing I can say is that at least there weren't multiple email clients represented (unless you include the email clients in GNOME and KDE).

  4. HOLY FUCK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I CRAPpED MY PANTs AN HOUR AGO, AND I DON't EVEN CARE!!!!1

  5. Cluestick: Get new names. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    I swear, the people who create these projects should be beaten:

    ==

    (1) GIMP

    gimp - n : disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet [syn: lameness, limping, gimpiness, gameness, claudication]

    (2) GNOME

    gnome - A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

    ==

    Am I to gather that combined they form a small crippled old man? Yessir, those names sure make *me* want to use those products...

    1. Re:Cluestick: Get new names. by be-fan · · Score: -1, Troll

      They're acronyms you ---baleted!--- That's why they're in caps!

      GIMP = GNU Image Manipulation Program. No worse than WMP (Windows Media Player) if you ask me.

      GNOME = GNU Network Object Model.

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