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Submission + - Sun promises prizes to boost open source effort

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e5rebel

on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @04:55AM

e5rebel writes: "Sun Microsystems will today (5 December) release details of a new award program meant to spur growth and activity within the company's open-source efforts, according to a post by Sun's open-source officer, Simon Phipps, on his corporate blog. Are they finally acting on their statements at Java One that open source is Robin Hood in reverse — cash strapped programmers contributing code to rich corporations, or is it an attempt to subvert the open source ethos? http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=6517"

Submission + - ATI committed to fixing its problems with OSS

Submitted by

Sits

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @03:02AM

Sits writes: "While talking about the Red Hat summit Chris Blizzard mentions how an ATI marketing spokesman was on stage. The spokesman said ATI knows it has a problem with open source and is committed to fixing it. Does this mean ATI will finally resolve alleged agpgart misappropriation, fast track the release of open source 2D drivers on its latest cards while releasing specifications for its mid-range cards or is ATI only concerned with fixes to its binary driver to maintain feature parity with competitors?"

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