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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. OK, I'm having a little trouble here by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does an uber-geek get a "Lifetime Achievement Award", which implies having a life??

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. Re:Too soon perhaps ? by dirtydog · · Score: 5, Funny
    usually lifetime achievement awards are given to people that have "faded" and are old and useless
    If that were the case, surely ESR would have gotten his first.
  3. 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