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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."

6 of 146 comments (clear)

  1. :-D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pirst Fost :-D

  2. Boooyah by Redmage5 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Brad! Have fun in Germany!

  3. but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's better?

    (a) Open Source

    OR

    (b) Sex With A Mare
  4. DANGER for Mount Washington Observatory crew! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    The brave crew manning the Mount Washington Observatory in North Conway, NH are in severe peril. Due to the extreme temperatures, they have not been able to actuate a team rotation for the last week.

    If this cold snap does not moderate soon, they are in danger of exhausting their entire food and oxygen stores!

    Just last night, a memer of the observation team became trapped behind a shack fifty yards from the observatory deck, because of the unrelenting 100+ mph winds.

    Read more about it here

    And here is a picture of some of the observation team members who were forced outside -- all with bare skin exposed to the sub-zero cold -- to escape a deadly carbon-monoxide leak emanating from the building's only furnace unit!

  5. I nominate GROKLAW.NET by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Reason:
    [Groklaw] deals with the SCO case. Her site is an excellent resource for those looking for a well-maintained and comprehensive guide to what's going on day-to-day surrounding the SCO controversy.

    --
    Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
  6. My opinion by Elektroschock · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    FFII might get my merit award.

    No FLOSS - organisation had done more for Open Source Lobbying in 2003. They smashed the EU software patent legislation while the OSI kept silent, OSI even announced they were not opposed to software patentability: "The Open Source Initiative does not have a position on whether ideas can be owned, whether patents are good or bad, or any of the related controversies. We think the economic self-interest arguments for open source are strong enough that nobody needs to go on any moral crusades about it."
    So who works against us?