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Alan Cox Given Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the great-bearded-one dept.

sebFlyte writes "This year's LinuxWorld awards in London were given out last night, including a lifetime achievement award to sometime maintainer of the Linux kernel and general open-source evangelist Alan Cox. Awards voted for by the user community also went to Ubuntu, for best distro and IBM for best corporate contribution to open source. He also chose to poke fun at the gathered hordes of open source coders saying "I do like all the dot-orgs... They have everything you need in life except soap.""

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  1. The "he" joking in the summary by GauteL · · Score: 4, Informative

    .. is comedian Steve Nallon. The summary makes it look like it is either IBM or Alan Cox cracking the joke about the soap.

  2. Re:dot-org joke? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    He means open source programmers are smelly, especially those that host their product on a .org.

  3. Re:Lifestyles of the rich and famous by A+Numinous+Cohort · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the other hand, he is a recipient of the MacArthur Award (aka The Genius Grant) and the Takeda Award which means he has a nice chunk of change socked away somewhere.

  4. Congratulations to Alan Cox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alan Cox deserves MULTIPLE lifetime achevement awards.

    1. For being insturmental in getting linux to run on 68k Macintoshes.
    ( actually, this makes him closer to a saint, but I digress..)

    2. For producing the first 64-bit port of linux.

    3. For maintaining the 64-bit port of linux.

    4. For being outspoken about the quality of the programming for the linux kernel. ( Ah ya, another sainthood type thing...)

    5. For promoting and proveying software at levels of quality far above normal industry standards.

    6. For contributing a large amount of time and energy to the development of the linux kernel.

    So...basically, Alan Cox is a god. Id like to nominate him for a MacArthur Grant.

    Killmofasta