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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. Congratulations! by parasonic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Woot! Congratulations! But the real recognition has yet to come.

  2. Too soon perhaps ? by moro_666 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    usually lifetime achievement awards are given to people that have "faded" and are old and useless

    is this some offensive hint to alan ?

    anyway, as from my personal experience, he might seem really mean sometimes, but eventually it always turns out that he has good motives to do and say what he does do or say. and did i forget to mention that this dude knows how to code ?

    i hope they aren't "carrying him out of the door with an applause", cause i think we still need him, even if he is under the hat of a big red evil company.

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  3. Re:What does he do now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    insert prisoner / austin powers crap here and get +5

  4. I have to do it... by acid_zebra · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I, for one, welcome our big-bearded slightly eccentric geek overlords.

    Congrats Alan!

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  5. Re:Soap and... by farnz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Generally, the .org booths at a show like LinuxWorld are for charitable organisations (like the FSF or Debian) instead of companies (like Novell or Red Hat). I suspect it's the "unwashed GNU/hippies" joke, just slightly subtler than usual.

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