Sun Offers Reward Program to Boost Open Source Effort

e5rebel writes to tell us that Sun Microsystems has announced they they will be creating a reward program in order to compensate open source programmers for their work in a hope to boost open source efforts. The program will involve communities like OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC, NetBeans, and OpenOffice.org according to Simon Phipps, Sun's open source officer. "Phipps' post comes some months after Rich Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, voiced skepticism over the open-source status quo, where developers who contribute to various efforts go uncompensated while corporations are enriched. 'It really is a worrisome social artifact,' Green said at the time. 'I think in the long term that this is a worrisome scenario [and] not sustainable. We are looking very closely at compensating people for the work that they do.'"

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Re:Most open source will come from India???

[ShieldW0lf]

Last time I checked there are freaking TONS of people literally dieing to get in to this country. So many that the U.S. is building a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigration. Yes those are generally lower educated people but there are still far more "high tech" people wanting in the county than H1Bs.

That's true. That's yet another problem with the US... they were dependent on the uneducated but industrious illegals to harvest food, and now that they're locking things down and throwing immigrants into concentration camps in the hundreds of thousands, food is rotting in the fields.

You seriously want people to believe that the U.S. is run by a bunch of "Religious Fanatics"? The same country that based its laws off of Christian values and religious freedoms (not freedom from religion) has morphed into a country that kids can't pray public schools, certain retailers were scared to say "Merry Christmas" and if anyone wants to teach children that "MOST" people in the U.S.A/World believe that the universe/time et all began by God, they will probably be fighting the ACLU in court.

Teachers are being fired for teaching science instead of creationism. The people in power were put there because the general population, or at least 49% of them, are so soft in the head that they swallowed all the religious rights rhetoric and elected a madman. Do you think a few insulting paintings written by attention seekers looking to tweak the nose of the religious establishment changes the nature of things? It doesn't... it's superficial

All in all the U.S. isn't looking too bad. Granted our taxes are ridiculous, but a hard working person in poverty can still become one of the richest people on earth and that can't be said for to many countries.

Hard work doesn't get you rich in the US. Scheming, conspiracy, underhanded tactics, economic exploitation of your fellow man, fraudulent accounting practices, exploitation of loopholes for personal gain... these are how a person in the US gets ahead. How naive are you?

Now to get this back on topic. I honestly don't know what this guys motive is at Sun. Sun sends out a ton of different messages and at the end of the day they are a company that needs to make money.

Well, you just answered your question. They want to make money. They want to climb to the top of the hill and wield power over the rest of us. In order to do that, they need the one thing that all modern business revolves around, which is vested interest from people in positions of power. This is an effort to generate that vested interest in the ascending market. They've been desperately throwing shit at the wall trying to get it to stick for a long time.