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Open Source Awards 2004

Posted by michael on from the applause dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first Open Source Awards 2004 have been announced. These newly created awards aspire to be the Nobel Prizes of the open source world. Congratulations to the developers of Valgrind, VideoLAN, JACK, and Pango."

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  1. Re:The Grandmasters and Specials yet to be announc by bonch · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Valgrind? VideoLAN? JACK? Pango?

    Only one of those names gives me any semblance of a clue of what it might do.

    At least it's not "Xouvert," but still, I just have to ask out of curiosity--why is it Open Source developers cannot come up with a single reasonable name for their projects? It's bad enough I have to choose between these things called "KDE" and "GNOME." Is there a switch in their brains that's flipped that requires them to choose the most esoteric names possible? It's not cute or funny.

  2. What a boring lineup... by Awptimus+Prime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There has to be bigger, better things going on out there..

  3. RMS responds: by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    6 hour rant...

    ...and that is why they should be called the GNUbel Prizes.

  4. Totally useless by robnauta · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A bunch of utilities that do things a dozen other things do already get prizes. So what.

    Meanwhile I, like many others, sit here waiting looking at sites and sourceforge pages for projects that have reached version 0.90 or 0.99 and haven't had any updates since july.