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CNET to Award Open Source Initiatives

Posted by Zonk on from the hats-off dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET's 2005 awards will for the first time include a category for Open Source Initiative of the Year. The winner will be announced at a gala dinner in London's swanky Park Lane Hilton in September. It's good to see such explicit acknowledging of the work being done by the open source community."

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  1. Gosh... who could be the winner? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Could it be Firefox and the Mozilla Foundation by chance? Sources say... yes.

  2. Who died and made CNET... by krbvroc1 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm sorry, but what qualification does CNET have to bestow open source software awards? I imagine this is just a way to put OSS marketing hype on closed source products so the lastest version of MS Office (because it uses XML) can put a CNET OSS Most Innovative Award 2006.

    This would be like Microsoft awarding a Freedom to Innovate award each year.

  3. Jeez... by chrisd · · Score: 2, Interesting
    And they have no sponsors and no judges. Good luck on this one CNet, did you really mean to launch this now? This smells like a premature launch to me. My advice: Pull the page and relaunch when you have the lists populated.

    I've been down this road before, it ain't pretty.

    Chris

    --
    Co-Editor, Open Sources
    Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.