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Open Source Awards 2004

Posted by michael on Saturday January 17, 2004 @08:07AM 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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So, we're awarding wasted duplication of effort? by RLiegh · 2004-01-17 08:39 · Score: 0, Troll

Now we're stuck with two debuggers (Valgrind and gdb) each having stunted functionality. Why didn't the people in charge of Valgrind put their effort into improving gdb (and taking advantage of the already present infrastructure at no added cost)?

As far as watching dvds on linux goes; speaking as an american, I will not buy dvds until it is legally feasible for me to watch them on my linux computer.