Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards (mozilla.org)

An anonymous reader writes: A couple months ago, we discussed news that Mozilla was planning to give back to the open source projects they rely on, to the tune of $1 million. Now, Mozilla has announced the first round of awards, giving out $503,000 in the process. The biggest payout, $200,000, went to Bro, who makes network monitoring software. They plan to use the funds to create "a public repository for sharing 3rd-party scripts and plug-ins." The Django project received $150,000, and they'll use it to "rewrite the core of Django to support (among other things) WebSockets and background tasks," and a few other goodies. Mercurial was awarded $75,000, which will go toward "better support for 'blame' (showing who last changed some code) and a better web UI." Also receiving awards were Read The Docs ($48,000), Discourse ($25,000), CodeMirror ($20,000), and BuildBot ($15,000).

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Open Source Awards

[Stormy Dragon]

A couple months ago, we discussed news that Mozilla was planning to give back to the open source projects they rely on, to the tune of $1 million. Now, Mozilla has announced the first round of awards, giving out $503,000 in the process.

Oracle immediately created a fork where Larry Elison won all the awards.

WTF?

[Zontar The Mindless]

I did not donate money to Mozilla back in the day in order for them to be able to spend six figures on PR. Fuck that noise. If they can afford that nonsense, they can afford to send me a refund. With about 15 years' interest.

Re:WTF?

[Zontar The Mindless]

No, it's more like giving someone begging on the street corner for food money and then seeing them in a Brook Bros suit with a hooker on either arm six months later.

Re:What would make you fagots happy?

[Zero__Kelvin]

Those are two different - almost warring - factions. Slashdot used to be the place to go for Open Source news and discussions. These days a lot of anti-FOSS people come here. If they aren't paid shills then I can't imagine why they come here, but they do. I doubt you will see many people with lower Slashdot User Numbers like myself complaining. It is mostly ACs and people with absurdly huge Slashdot ID Numbers that are anti-FOSS..