LinuxPPC64 Contest

Robert MacFarlan writes: "IBM is sponsoring a Open Source developer contest for their Linux on POWER (Linux PPC 64) effort. The contest is designed to award and showcase innovative new open source applications that are designed or optimized specifically for Linux running on the PPC architecture. The contest also awards ports of existing applications from a predetermined list. Contest prizes include Segway HTs, Apple Power Mac G5s, and cash awards. "

Comments

Re:Porting wine?

[TheRaven64]

The Darwine project has winelib running on OS X, and aims to tie QEMU to WINE to allow windows apps to run with the binaries in the emulated environments and the wine calls running on the native platform.

Re:"POWER"

[Seehund]

POWER is an acronym. "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC", IIRC.

Now go shout at the eejits who shout "MAC" when referring to cute plastic from Apple, Inc. ;)

no no no, June 2005

[acomj]

Read the article. Entries due by June 2005.. Registration Now..

Who is moding around here...???

Re:Open to US residents only

[dilby]

What page are you reading??? This contest is designed for Open Source Developers world-wide (w/ the exception of Quebec Canada). Please see the official rules.

Re:Open to US residents only

[Inigo Montoya]

From cnews.canoe.ca:

"While some companies permit Quebec entrants, many are scared away by unique rules that are mandated by the province's gaming agency.

Quebec is the lone Canadian jurisdiction that requires security deposits, charges fees and enforces strict rules about draws valued at more than $100. Some American states also enforce rules that prevent their residents from participating in contests.

In addition to requiring that all documents be written in French, Quebec's agency charges three per cent of the value of all national prizes, even if a Quebecer doesn't claim a prize, or 10 per cent of the value of a contest run exclusively in the province. The agency collected nearly $1.7 million in fees last year.

In the rest of Canada, large contests are governed only by the federal Competition Act, a broad framework for promotional contests.

"People often exclude Quebec just because they're afraid of these rules and don't really understand them," said Sharon Groom, a Toronto lawyer who represents many advertisers that run contests as a marketing tool.

"They're not actually that bad but a lot of our clients will say we don't want to be bothered with doing this, so they exclude Quebec."

Re:give us cheap Linux-based PPC machines

[glitch0]

The Airport specs aren't being withheld by Apple, it's a Broadcom chipset which is proprietary.
There's a petition for Broadcom to release opensource drivers on PetitionOnline.com.