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Stallman, Torvalds, Sakamura win Takeda Prize
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michael
on Fri Oct 12, 2001 02:15 PM
from the just-desserts dept.
from the just-desserts dept.
hal_mit writes: "Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and
Ken Sakamura have been jointly awarded the first annual
Takeda Foundation Prize, for "The origination and the advancement
of open development models for system software - open architecture,
free software and open source software". This is a major new recognition of the social value of free software and open source."
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Richard will be pleased (Score:5, Funny)
Torn from the pages of DUH magazine.... (Score:5, Funny)
Jim Henson posthumously awarded the Kermit the Frog Award for Puppetry
McDonalds awarded the Ray Crock award for tastiest burger joint with a Clown Themed Mascot
Bill Gates awarded the MCSE lobby's Man of the Millennium, Ballmer heartbroken
Re:Torn from the pages of DUH magazine.... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh man... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh man... (Score:5, Funny)
What the quick blurb above doesn't say (Score:2, Informative)
Is that the Takeda award is granted in 3 different areas.
Sakamura, Stallma, and Torvalds were granted the award in the "Social/Economic Well-Being" category. This means that an international group has recognized that Linux and GNU pose great advantages over the current system of closed/secret source.
Hopefully this recognition, and the 100 million yen prize will encourage further efforts to educate the masses.
Anyone know how much 100 million yen is in american dollars?
And the swag is... (Score:5, Interesting)
Was recently reading a biography of Enrico Fermi. The cash he received from the Nobel prize, plus the jewlery his wife was able to take with her to Sweden for the prize ceremony, allowed them to escape Italy to the US (his wife was Jewish).
sPh
who is Sakamura (Score:4, Informative)
Excellant (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm more interested in seeing who will be getting these awards 5 years from now, once all the really obvious open-source prophets, kings and queens have gotten their past-due.
In other news (Score:3, Funny)
Craig Mundie wins the CapitalGuy award for the most confusing contributions to the world of closed-source software. Mr. Mundie has generously made a grant to the Microsoft Foundation For Youth-Reeduction, his way of giving back to the loyal community that has honored him thusly.
Marc Andreesen was on the list of nominees this year, but seems to have mysteriously vanished to the Isle of AOL (believed to be located somewhere in the South Media Sea).
(disclaimer: it's supposed to be funny. please, no rotten eggs this time
Open Source Award (Score:5, Funny)
I would like to introduce the MacGabhain Open Source Award. You may award it to anyone else you like, so long as you don't restrict them from awarding it to others. You may modify the award in any way you like, so long as that award may also be awarded by anyone else to anyone else. You must include the following statement in any issuance of this award:
This award is or includes the MacGabhain Open Source Award. You may grant this award, either in its current form or in any modified form, to anyone provided you allow them to grant this award to anyone else and you include this statement in any granting of the award.
Ken who? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Ken who? (Score:4, Informative)
Ken Sakamura is honored for developing and promoting the TRON open architecture, a real-time operating system specification for embedded systems.
Now aren't you embarrassed?
Linus was heard to say... (Score:2, Funny)
One day soon... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Or atleast... that's what people who don't know how to support the ECA would say, but luckily you can support the ECA just by spreading word of the Eggplant in all it's forms and variations.... but how do you do that? easy... click Eggplants! [eggforge.net].
Eggplants! [eggforge.net]
Hmmm... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh right... (Score:1)
While most of us would probably agree with that statement, FSF would prefer the use of the term "Free Software Movement".
GNOS: GNOS's Not Open Source
Jason
TRON Project (Score:1)
Stick in the Mud? (Score:4, Insightful)
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but...
I *KNOW* these folks have done wonders for us and the industry, but what about Allen? My impression of the guy (only from reading online interviews and such) is that he's not the sort of bloke that would really even think of getting recognised like this (I could be VERY wrong, I don't know the guy). But to recognise Linus (I know, he greatly helped start all this stuff, please don't flame me for that), is really electing a Poster Child (as he has said Himself).
Sorry. I'm just helping vote for the Underdogs...
(Man, I'm losing mod points like crazy latley...)
Re:Stick in the Mud? (Score:4, Funny)
I hear he's already working on an ac patch.
The Takeda-ac prize won't get as much press attention, but it will get all of the best candidates before the "other" Takeda prize.
Plus, it's unlikely ever to make a "brown paper bag" selection.
Someone should immortalize this with a haiku (Score:2)
and open architecture
Win Takeda Prize
Timely (Score:4, Funny)
Remember the old Star Trek history rule? (Score:5, Funny)
Remember how, in Star Trek, it was/is the rule when citing history to give 3 sources: two of which you've heard of, and one which is apparently post 21st-century? You know, Kirk will talk about e.g. ``defenders of freedom like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Ankuba of Sirius 43.''
Meaning no disrespect to the fine work of any of the recipients of this generous prize, but...
Linus: Does he even know/care? (Score:2, Funny)
On a different but related topic (Score:1)
Anyone know how Linus' book is selling? Is that information available on the web?
With the likely dissolution of Transmeta in about one year's time (at their current cash burn rate) it will be nice to see Linus get this money. From reading his book, I got the impression that Linus spent most of his stock option money on his house.
Also we might as well begin this speculation now: where will Linus work after Transmeta?
Recognition (Score:1, Insightful)
What about testers next? Without them we would still be hacking blindly. Personally I think testers dont get enough recognition. I personally thank testers for helping me write good scaleable, solid, reliable secure code.
You Writeda Code. (Score:5, Funny)
\(^_^)/
Major recognition? (Score:3, Insightful)
I hadn't even heard of the Takeda Prize until this article. If someone like me, who it very up to date on technology doesn't have the slightest clue about what the Takeda Prize means, or what it would be for, how can you call it major recognition? If nobody knows about it, it isn't major. There aren't exactly a half-billion people rearranging their dinner schedules to catch the Takeda Prize.
Which leads me to another point; This is the first annual Takeda Prize. Again, I ask, how is this "major recognition"? This isn't the Nobel Prize, which is 100 years old and internationally recognized. This isn't even the Pulitzer Prize, which ANYONE can enter.
Yes, I realize that the Nobel Prize was once new, and it takes time. I just don't see it as major recognition.
BTW: I won this year's First Annual Nimrod Prize for Outstanding Slashdot Commentary. This is a major new recognition of the social value of LDOPA1's digital literature.
See my point?
Moderators: This isn't Flamebait, it's textual criticism [m-w.com]. There is a difference.
TRON Inside? (Score:2, Insightful)
Jason
well there's this years winners... (Score:1)
Seriously, there just aren't that many projects out there with universal recognition, let alone acceptance.
Here's a prediction for next year's winners:
1. Larry Wall
2. Guido Van Rossum
or
3. whoever invented TCL or Beowolf.
And then we're fresh out of winners for all subsequent years. It'll be worse than the Oscars.
Linus Torvalds wins Linus Torvalds award!!!! (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm not ragging on open source it is just that touting Open Source awards given by Open Source people is like buying yourself a birthday present when no one cares enough to give you one. With all due respect, who outside the "Open Source World" gives a rat's shit?
Question (Score:1)
:)
Anyone notice the figures are GIF? (Score:2, Insightful)
Takeda prize = $825,900 USD (Score:2, Informative)
From The Takeda Foundation [takeda-foundation.jp]: "Each award will be accompanied by a monetary prize of 100 million yen."
The XE.com Universal Currency Converter [xe.com] yields these figures:
This is $275,300 USD for each of the awardees.
Re:Seriously. (Score:2, Interesting)
Now as for tech support, some AC below cried about tech guys giving bad support. That's not bad support. That's survival. After dealing with customers long enough, the problems are all the same, and the solution invariably simplifies. I used to bend over backwards and set up every goddamn dial-up/internet/email thing to make their point and click online experience easier, less intimidating and convenient. No more. I burnt out. Even windows is too hard for people to use. It's not bad support, it's tailoring the solution to the LCD. If you cant get your mail and haven't even bothered to try any other internet activity to isolate the cause yourslef, and call me within 2 seconds of arriving from your vacation and your mail flunks, then you all you wil get from me is a request to try agin and call back. /. -- discussion that evangelises Linux and discussion that disparages MS.
And I'm sorry you got modded as flamebait, apparently there are only two topics on
I would prefer to play Sysadmin on *nix, but I would loathe to do *nix helldesk for clueless lusers.
Re:Seriously. (Score:5, Informative)
Speak for yourself. I was happily doing consulting working in 1992, and since then I have been doing nothing but computer jobs. Previous to that, however, I sold applications for the Apple ][ (an image editor named Digital Palette and a text editor named Ion (which had support for Epson print codes!)). That was well before Windows 95.
There was enough good stuff coming out so that, had Microsoft been absent, we would still be more or less in the same place we are now.
That really brought the PC to the home consumer, and the Internet to the masses.
Wow. You have no historical perspective (or you've been smoking MS Press Releases). Was Win95 your first OS? Did you miss the fact that the WinSock and Netscape programs that brought the Internet to that era's users was not part of Win95 (Know what Tucows stands for)? Hell, I was working in an ISP in 1995, and we put out tons of install disks loaded with 16 bit software.
it's my opinion.
It really sounds like the opinion of someone whose computer experience began fairly recently. That's no *bad*, just keep in mind that perspective on many of these "absolutes" and "beginnings" is important. I almost choked on coffee when someone first said in a meeting, "Well, as the old saying goes, nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft". That dosen't mean it wasn't true - at the time. And the fact that it's been through iterations just indicates that there are iterations yet to come.
--
Evan
Re:Seriously. (Score:3, Insightful)
No, seriously.
Due to network effects, it's likely that there would be one or few dominant home operating systems anyway. But without monopolistic practices, they'd have to actually compete, instead of coasting.
Re:Seriously. (Score:2)
Agreed! But it was only some 10 years later that Linus and the OSS crew brought operating systems to the masses. ;-)
Re:Seriously. (Score:1)
Yeah, it would be a whole lot better.
I can see it now, 10% IE market share, 10% netscape share, 10% mozilla share, 10% lynx share, 10% links share, 10% arachne share, 10% mosaic share, 10% opera share, 20% other.
In that market do you think people would bother with all that shit that marketoids think makes webpages look cool, but in reality makes them:
- Internet Explorer Documents
- Slow
- Silly
- Impossible to read
- Impossible to browse
Nope. We'd be back in 1996. And you know what? I could live without mouseover, idiotic sound on webpages, pop-up javashit, and all the other horrible crap out there.
Plain text plus a few images is all I need. Well, tables are nice... But that's the end of it.
Oh, that and there'd be no ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc... They would play nicely together and form a homogeneous network that was easy to implement for all 10 OSes.
The shame. Sharing. What horrible will they think of next?