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Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations
chromatic writes "Google and O'Reilly have published the Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations. These awards, given at OSCON 2008, recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software. The nomination process is open to the entire open source community, and nominations close on May 15. Here's your chance to sing the praises of previously unsung hackers."
http://www.pfsense.org
I hacked the first post system. Nominate me!
They're missing a category for the "It's a Trap! Award" as I would like to nominate The Prince of Darkness for his work with OOXML 'community acceptance.'
My work here is dung.
How about Theo de Raadt?
You fail it. Better luck next year.
I nominate Steve Balmer and Bill Gates, in the last month they have done more to promote the concept of alternative operating systems than anyone else in the market. Bill by saying the next Windows is out next year and Steve by saying that Vista is a work in progress. Without the sterling work of these two men in hampering Microsoft it would be much harder for Open Source software in the corporate world.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I vote for Vista.
Persian Project Management Software as a Service
I nominate Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame. Ubuntu has done more to promote a desktop Linux than any other distro before.
I'm a big fan of PostgreSQL, the most advanced open source database server. For the small to medium sized production facility (about 50 employees) where I do both administration and development, postgres running on Slackware is a perfect fit. It's almost a joy to administer.
Best Kernel Hacker - Andrew Morton (-mm kernel line)
Best Project Leader - Aaron Sergio (KDE 4)
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
What might be more fun would be one for the worst OSS developers - there could be categories for least notice taken of user requirements, best flaming of dumb newbie questions on the support forums, most hostile to new developers joining the team...
I'm too polite to nominate anyone though.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
For giving us Windows Vista.
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As the worst Open Source project ever devised. Ten years and its still beta software. I guess that qualifies it for the Vaporware Award of the decade as well. And its written in Java. (cold sweat covers body)
You are a whiny, lazy, lying, sack of shit. That's a nice story you came up with to bash the new kid on the block though. Why are some people so offended by Ubuntu?
I'd like to nominate Developers for MS Office 2007. If it weren't for them and the OOXML (docx) format thousands of people wouldn't be trying out OpenOffice out of frusation. They got me to try out OpenOffice 3 Beta when someone sent me a docx document. It worked Great!
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
If you have read your messages I know you've seen these figures:
Windows sinks 24%
PC Shipments up 12%
This gap is about 1/3 of the market. Apple's computer sales are up 50%, but as you note their numbers are well counted and can't account for a gap this large. Those computers shipped with some OS on them. What was it?
eWeek, which I've always regarded as a loyal Microsoft fan, has declared Ubuntu ready to take on Windows. I think you'll find that's where the missing numbers are, though Redhat is doing well too as is Asus with their eee and myriad others.
Now you can't deny you've seen the figures.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
The Asus eeePC is a runaway smash hit and all the first versions shipped with linux. Which means they weren't vista. That's more than 0%. Granted, they are dragging out some sort of XP training bra version to fit it in for some people, but the first foray was pure linux. (for this observation I will take a minilaptop as part of joe consumers personal home computers, which is what I think you meant, that market)
Again, at best you've proved that Windows popularity has fallen and that Linux "could make inroads". "Could", if for example, it started selling.
Mac sales are up true, in the US mainly and this has slightly dented Vista sales.
Now, i'm not going to be disingenuous here; the OLPC and the eePC are doing well; almost in their own category, but even they run Windows now.
And what of the server end? Well, Windows seems to be gaining there too; let's be honest, if there's one area Windows could do better in, it's the server.
And you know what, I hope Linux does do better in the desktop to be honest. FireFox was one hell of a kick up the arse for Microsoft, and we all resulted in better browsing experiences for everyone because of it. Something similar in the desktop arena won't be unappreciated, but, putting it politely, progress is slow in that area right now.
When you can give me hard evidence desktop Linux is installed even at 5% market share globally, then you may be onto something.
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Given this is an open source award, one TLA immediately comes to mind: ESR.
I nominated Eric S. Raymond for his outreach and community efforts in making open source a well-defined, understood, and established. ESR has been a prominent voice and force in the open source movement, he co-founded the Open Source Initiative, helped with the release of the Mozilla code as open source, and continues to contribute to various open source projects directly including X11, Battle for Wesnoth, Emacs, Fetchmail, Freeciv, and more.
Cheers!
Sean
Cute. You got Walmart to stop selling linux in stores. Nobody cares. Walmart.com is open 24/7 and they offer three different kinds of Linux on 24 different platforms. Wanna try again?
Up 50% quarter over year ago, if you don't mind, and it hasn't slightly dented Vista sales. Vista has driven customers to it. Don't you get it? This still doesn't explain your loss of 1/3 of your 90% market share. That's not bleeding. That's hemorraging.
Actually if there's one area Windows could be doing better in, it's supercomputing where linux owns 85% of the space.
On the server side if you could find a way to sell server operating systems to Google you might make a dent. Maybe you'll have a better chance with Yawho? though, because I really don't see you making any inroads with the Google. Server 2003 isn't horrible. Server 2008 isn't bad. Neither of them is Open and that's the death of them. How many parked pages you can buy to geek your numbers on Netcraft isn't fooling anybody since 2005. Oh, Hey, did DHS fix that nasty SQL injection bug that had IIS serving malware to all of your Windows clients? Us Linux users don't worry about such nonsense of course, but I'm worried about some of my customers who are still afflicted with IE.
If those items had actually shipped in the first quarter you might have a point. Since they didn't, you've defeated yourself. Those items became popular with Linux and any way Microsoft can corrupt them is not going to change the fact that they became popular under Linux. Will they be popular with XP? We will see. They will never run Vista well and it's two years before you can offer anything better. You had better really bring your A game on that day, because Compiz is kicking your butt all over Youtube right now.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Wow, what a great program.
...and then there's the trash you write on slashdot.
I expect we could keep throwing links and at each other all week long, so i'll cut this one short...see my last statement above from my previous comment.
Until then, I'm sure someone here will listen to your rantings.
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