Category: Best 'Deserving of a $2,000 Award' 28
Do you disagree with our categories? Think that some deserving soul is being passed over? Or you think that you deserve $2,000? Well, this is the catch-all bin of the awards - so head over to the nomination booth and let your voice be heard.
Nitrozac made Linux SEXY! (Score:1)
Re:Legal Defense (Score:1)
Oh, good idea! Give $2000 to a bunch of poseurs whose major accomplishment is putting the word "Playboy" in their META tags.
The Leonardo people, on the other hand, might actually deserve a couple of bucks.
The ATI TV tuner guys (Score:1)
FreeMWare (Score:1)
GNU HURD (Score:1)
it is important to have more than a single alternative for a kernel to
use on Open Source (well, mostly GNU) systems. Secondly, GNU HURD [gnu.org] is a
microkernel, which is a certified Way of the Future, will be much more
extendable, flexible, and will scale better for SMP machines with lots
of processes. And most importantly, the HURD, although
UNIX-compatible, does not attempt to merely mimic UNIX but can
potentially function in much different and diverse ways that the UNIX
architecture cannot even dream of. Therefore: HURD.
Freemware (Score:1)
Leonard Richardson of Segfault.org (Score:1)
Not to slight the hard work of Scott James Remnant (the other main segfault guy), but Scott is often recognized in press interviews and in friends and family stock offerings of Linux IPOs. And Leonard is chained to his Internet connection fixing things while Scott is off having a life or something. I say $2,000 is a small price to pay to keep a sense of humor about things. After all, laughter is the best medicine and who can put a price tag on your health? :)
NASA (Score:1)
MBrod
Me of course! (Score:1)
Legal Defense (Score:1)
Re:The ATI TV tuner guys (Score:1)
I switched to Linux - as soon as they finished
their first working player, there was nothing
that Linux couldn't do better than Windows.
A Most Noble Nomination (Score:1)
Vote for me! (Score:1)
Kind of a selfish thing to do, I know, but after all this is one of the "Fun categories".
Why should I get the $2K Award?
Well, I have done all sorts of great things that have helped mankind to develop further!
I am solely responsible for all the wonderful things that have happened to all of you in the last 100 years!
I am the force that makes the sun come up every morning!
It is I, and I alone, who can make all your dreams come true!
And... and... I'll give you free Jolt!
Oh, what am I trying to pull here?
I need it to buy Quake 3 Arena and 31337 litres of Dr Pepper!
Now, ask yourself: Is that not reason enough?
ME!! (Score:1)
to be honist, I think this one should go the the EFF for their recent work defending the web aginst the DVD CCA.
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amazon (Score:1)
Ahh... (Score:1)
First of all, I'd like to nominate all of us that is using Linux and helping the community by offering help, coding or just by using it...
Second, I'd like to nominate Carsten 'Rasterman' Haitzler for his great work with Enlightenment
Third, I'd nominate myself if everyone else hadn't already done it... So if I say freshmeat, you say? That's right, Patrick Lenz!
Here's a noble cause (Score:1)
How 'bout donating it to MY open source project, Kosmos Online? Most people/projects only have ONE reason to receive a prestigious award like this... here's ten!
1) The developers are known as KODPIECE (Kosmos Online Developers, Proprieters, Instigators, Engineers, Creators, Etc.)
2) Money awarded as prizes will be used to further the project (an open-source online RPG) by buying things like hardware and bandwidth.
3) KOSMOS stands for Kinky Online Sex: Mordred's Only Salvation. I came up with Kosmos first, but we needed something for it to stand for... and this one won.
4) The main coder (me) is only 15. His mental age is 3.
5) I just got my age wrong. (I'm really 16) What's even worse is that I had to have it pointed out to me.
6) We have better makefiles than Verge 2.
7) I'm running low on Coke, and the Chinese take-out next door is threatening to seize possession of my computer. If this happens, it would be a tragic blow.
8) We're based in Canada, so $2000.00 US is really $4000.00 for us!
9) ESR doesn't need any more money after the VA Linux IPO, and if he doesn't win one of these Beanie awards I'll eat my hat.
10) Think of it as Charlie Brown's Christmas tree... "All it needs is a little love". (But money will do in a pinch)
Seriously, folks, Kosmos Online is a mildly cool project, which seems to be spawning more work on "spin-off" projects than on Kosmos Online itself... cool stuff like turning Loki Software's SDL into a GL Context selector, rewriting POV-Ray to double as a texture generator, research into real-time raytracing engines for use in games, and all sorts of interesting stuff... so think about it. For more information, drop me an e-mail at vining@pacificcoast.net.
Kosmos Online... the *very* alternative choice.
... we now return you to your regular Trolls.
Steven H. van Leeuwen (Score:1)
The founder of project Bartleby. He put Emily Post on line. Now if only more Open Source advocates would read it...
DeleGate deserves something (Score:1)
Robert Krawitz (Score:1)
My new nephew! (Score:2)
The poor kid was born on x-mas day, he deserves this much.
The Hunger Site (Score:2)
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Dipl. Inf. (FH) Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
"(to) optimize: Make a program faster by improving the algorithms rather than by buying a faster machine."
OpenVerse Visual Chat (Score:2)
http://openverse.org [openverse.org] is where you can see info on this project. We could use the money to pay for the web space we are using.
You are a threat to free speech and must be SILENCED!
new thoughts on helpdesk tracking. (Score:2)
My vote goes to a pair of students at Drew University. Erik Larsson and Del Sockel. In 3 weeks they managed to create a Web based helpdesk tracking and asset management software based completely upon open-source/freeware materials. MySQL, PHP, PERL, and JavaScript being the base of the work, and this is without any prior experience with PHP or MySQL.
And now they're rewriting it with mod_perl to be an apache module content handler that can do it all much faster and more reliably. Sorry to ramble, but I tend to think it's impressive.
--John