CA's $1mn Open-Source Bounty Results

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 18, 2005 @08:19AM from the cash-nearly-in-hand dept.

Anil Kandangath writes "Last year, Computer Associates open sourced their Ingres DMBS and they also announced a $1mn bounty for open source conversion toolkits from other databases to Ingres. Well, the toolkits are up on SourceForge and the bounty has been won by three teams, two from India and one from New York. More details and links to the projects on the CA news page. This is one of the greatest bounties for open source software and will hopefully serve as a model for other companies taking this path of cheaper development and better code."

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Re:DEAR CMDR TACO by scovetta · 2005-05-18 10:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I thought Copyrights and Patents were the same thing
(ducks)

Also, what about SCO? Doesn't that cross Linux, Copyright, Patent, and Anti-Establishment? In fact, if someone modded up an iPod to do a Google search for SCO headlines, that'd make all six! Hooray!

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