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Second quarter Open Source Awards announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cough-up-some-cash dept.

JohnGrahamCumming writes "The Open Source Initiative has announced its Q2 award winners here. Three people/projects got $500 Merit Awards: Martin Pool for distcc, Tom Lord for GNU Arch and The GIMP. OSI is currently looking for nominations for the Q3 awards to be announced at OSCON."

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  1. awards 4 times a year by millahtime · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, let me get this straight. Open Source awards are given out 4 times a year. Why so ofter? Doens't that downplay the importance of the awards.

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  2. Well, I think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting
    That SCO should receive an award. Yes, we like to criticize them on this board, but their actions have pointed out the sloppiness and disregard for proper licensing that most open source programmers and projects suffer from.

    The SCO lawsuits have certainly acted as a catalist to begin the maturation of the open sourse community. Hopefully it will grow to include a non tolerance of pirates and other thieves.

  3. Some worthy projects in my opinion by baywulf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Autotrace is a program that converts bitmaps to vector drawings: http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/

    Imgseek classifies bitmap images based on similarity . http://imgseek.sourceforge.net/

    Both would be awesome if converted into libraries used by other programs.

  4. Re:I don't know this as fact, but... by 14erCleaner · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It would seem to me that the awards go to people/teams that have created great Open Source software, not evangelists.

    Arguably the award for Gnu Arch was made to evangelists. They even go out of their way on their opening page (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch) to slam those who aren't true enough in their beliefs:

    It is somewhat well known, these days, that some of the core developers of the Linux kernel are using a revision control system which is not free software. There is a need to create a free software alternative to that system and to do so is one of the goals of the arch project

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  5. Glad to see Tom Lord get the nod by Tet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tom's been struggling financially for a while, and even had to stop developing Arch because he didn't have enough funds. Arch is the only open source revision control system that is comparable to BitKeeper. Subversion may be an improvement on CVS, but it's nowhere near as comprehensive as Arch or BK. Incidentally, even Larry McVoy admits that Arch has the potential to be even better than BK. The current difference is that BK is much more polished and production ready.

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  6. Re:I thought The Gimp was a Tarantino character? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There really was a real life mobster known as "the Gimp" -- Marty "the Gimp" Synder. He was a Chicago mobster who manipulated the music industry, Columbia records, in particular. Marty the Gimp was portrayed by movie tough guy James Cagney in the biopic picture Love Me or Leave Me,