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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. Re:What is it? by grub · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Cost is a big one. Also using some of the product generated via university and research supported by tax dollars is another. Why not use what they've paid for?

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  2. Fair Compensation by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Do you feel that $1 million dollars is fair compensation for the developer when if you were to hire and develop "normally" it would cost many times that?

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  3. Hand on heart, Mr Greenblatt. by Dominic+Burns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you genuinely believe in the open source movement?

    If you do, why?

    Do you see it as a source of revenue, something that will benefit humanity or a mixture of both...or neither?

  4. Re:What is it? by eric76 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's quite true. That was one of the better first posts in spite of the minor error.

    If I had a suggestion to improve the discussions, it would be to come up with a better method for determing the order to display posts instead of chronological order of the parents.

    How about coming up with a score for each parent based on it's mod points, the number of child posts and their mod points?

    Even just displaying them in decreasing order of total moderator points of the parent and all the children would improve things enormously by moving the more interesting threads to the top with chronological order being preserved only in case of ties.

    That would, I think, make the obvious race by some among us to have the first post on a topic rather meaningless. Instead, it would place a higher value on making posts that are more likely to lead to on-topic discussions.