Truly arrogant of esr and his followers at OSI - why didn't they just call it the ESR awards - after all he is going to be taking credit for the award winners work anyway.
Nobel made his fortune on dynamite. Esr is a dot com has been in terms of his fortune, but he does have a chance at making some small fortune by selling his silicon snake oil.
What I find particularly amusing about this is that Linus or RMS could win a Nobel Prize and esr might be a footnote in the history books as one who attempts to rewrite history and take credit for the work of others.
Vulture Capitalist's are not known for ethics. But then it is no surprise that esr's OSI follows his questionable situational ethics.
It is an interesting coincidence that the story "Sun expands Unix deal with SCO" appeared on slashdot yesterday and Sun is a sponsor of the OSI award.
CNET Reported: A previously secret licensee of SCO Group's Unix intellectual property has revealed its identity: Unix leader Sun Microsystems.
Sun hasn't been ashamed to try to profit from the effects of that suit. It jumped at the chance to declare itself a safe haven for spooked technology buyers: "Sun's complete line of Solaris and Linux products...are covered by Sun's portfolio of Unix licensing agreements. Solaris and Sun Linux represent safe choices for those companies that develop and deploy services based on Unix systems," Sun declared the day SCO filed suit against IBM.
"Now we know why Sun was so absolutely confident about where they stand in this whole thing that they were essentially able to turn it into some marketing and sales FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) of their own," Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said.
So it appears that OSI has been arguing that The SCO Group's Intellectual Property is worthless and taking money from Sun who is using it for PR. On one hand Sun is trying to ingratiate itself with the Linux community by funding an award and the other hand the PR is FUD against both Linux and IBM's AIX. Esr did get some press about the award, but then he has always been good at self-promotion, and not word one about the glaring conflicts of interest.
Thus I hereby nominate esr's OSI and Sun for the OSCON blue ribbon for:
1. Questionable Situational Ethics
2. Self Destructive FUD
3. Conflict of Interest
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Nobel made his fortune on dynamite. Esr is a dot com has been in terms of his fortune, but he does have a chance at making some small fortune by selling his silicon snake oil.
What I find particularly amusing about this is that Linus or RMS could win a Nobel Prize and esr might be a footnote in the history books as one who attempts to rewrite history and take credit for the work of others.
It is an interesting coincidence that the story "Sun expands Unix deal with SCO" appeared on slashdot yesterday and Sun is a sponsor of the OSI award.
CNET Reported:
A previously secret licensee of SCO Group's Unix intellectual property has revealed its identity: Unix leader Sun Microsystems.
Sun hasn't been ashamed to try to profit from the effects of that suit. It jumped at the chance to declare itself a safe haven for spooked technology buyers: "Sun's complete line of Solaris and Linux products...are covered by Sun's portfolio of Unix licensing agreements. Solaris and Sun Linux represent safe choices for those companies that develop and deploy services based on Unix systems," Sun declared the day SCO filed suit against IBM.
"Now we know why Sun was so absolutely confident about where they stand in this whole thing that they were essentially able to turn it into some marketing and sales FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) of their own," Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said.
So it appears that OSI has been arguing that The SCO Group's Intellectual Property is worthless and taking money from Sun who is using it for PR. On one hand Sun is trying to ingratiate itself with the Linux community by funding an award and the other hand the PR is FUD against both Linux and IBM's AIX. Esr did get some press about the award, but then he has always been good at self-promotion, and not word one about the glaring conflicts of interest.
Thus I hereby nominate esr's OSI and Sun for the OSCON blue ribbon for:
1. Questionable Situational Ethics
2. Self Destructive FUD
3. Conflict of Interest