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Ask Sam Greenblatt About CA's $1 Million Open Source Prize

Posted by Roblimo on from the trying-to-win-open-source-hearts-and-minds dept.

Several large companies have recently released previously proprietary software into the open source wilds. The splashiest announcement along these lines was from CA, who opened their Ingres r3database -- and offered up to $1 million in incentives for development of Ingres migration tools. For those of you who want to earn a piece of that money, and for all of us who have questions about how and why CA is cozying up to open source developers, the person with the answers is Sam Greenblatt, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of CA's Linux Technology Group. So ask, already. We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Sam by email, and post his answers as soon as we get them back.

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  1. Please contact me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    Dear Mr. Greenblatt,

    I'd be interested in discussing licensing and naming of your database; GNU/Ingres3 has a nice ring to it, yes? You can contact me through any of the YMCA shelters in California.

    Regards,
    RMS

  2. Re:What is it? by sleepnmojo · · Score: 1, Funny

    the women

  3. Can you just give me the money ? by anti-NAT · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a really nice person, and therefore I deserve it :-).

    Trying the Survivor All Stars trick, it worked on TV.

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  4. Re:Maybe Microsoft will follow Ingres... by guitaristx · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... and release the code for Clippy. :o)

    That'd be a short-lived open-source effort:
    1. Turn off by default.
    2. Replace all functionality with do-nothing returns/callbacks/etc.
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    I pity the foo that isn't metasyntactic