Google Launches Summer of Code

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 31, 2005 @12:28PM from the better-than-the-summer-of-love dept.

chrisd writes "We're very happy to launch the Summer of Code today, and I thought Slashdot readers would be interested and might even help us spread the word (We have a flyer, even). The program is designed to give computer science, and other, students a stipend ($4500) while they learn to release and create open source software. We're working with a variety of Open Source software foundations and organizations and we hope to sign up around 200 developers. We hope the end result will be more open source developers! I'll be pleased to answer questions in the comment stream about this program. Thanks!"

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Watch your backs. by i_like_spam · 2005-05-31 13:07 · Score: 0, Troll

Gates purchased the rights to QDOS for $50,000 and churned it into a multi-billion dollar business.

Now... Google wants to give you a measely $4500 for a software product that may reap them millions or billions!
Re:Why just students? by matt+me · 2005-05-31 21:57 · Score: 0, Troll

"we want to work with open source projects"
By that I suspect our Google overloads may mean they want to steal free code and then patent blanket it and any other competition.