Before mentioned SourceForge.net the annual meeting of the Community Choice Awards, based on the performance of the open-source projects in a variety of categories. This year, prices open to all open-source projects, not only where they remained on SourceForge.net, he promises an accurate representation of the entire area.
Well, that’s fact. Your item has been received and the votes are counted correctly. The winners were selected on Thursday during a ceremony in the group OSCON O’Reilly Open Source Convention. And finally – even if it was a useful exercise – the list of people honored offers some surprises.
OpenOffice.org was the big winner. The open-source desktop productivity caught, the prize for the best project in general and was voted as the best project for the company and the markets of education.
Linux has the title of “somewhat to change the world” to ask me whether it is really just a “probably” something of that price has already done what it is “very likely” to do so.
The project, “in which the probability that the user Sued” eMule, a peer-to-peer file-sharing customers. No surprises.
More revealing, however, won the “Best New Project” title. Magenta, an Open Source e-commerce packages, had the honour of showing that the interest for the open-source software is still strong among customers.
Other prizes are doubtful. A web-based solution for managing MySQL databases, phpMyAdmin, was “more could be the next $ 1 billion purchase.” There is no doubt that the evidence for the phpMyAdmin is useful for many Web managers in small and medium-sized enterprises – but come. One million?
And the wine, the layer with the compatibility of Windows to Linux, has become “more can be accused of the violation of patents”, despite the fact that in order to avoid legal disputes over intellectual property was one of the objectives of the project, the wines first day. Quite apart from the recent news that the Patent Office appears to be creating a major change of software patents.
However, the Community Choice Awards, seems to be a good idea, joy, but the vote has shown little sight. Most winners are known and established. No real Dark Horse candidate has taken the stage. Like a popularity competition, in an appropriate way, but certainly the field of open-source software is broader than that?
Possibly what is needed is a competition, less on the model of the Viewer’s Choice Awards and more after the awarding ceremony of the Oscars. Instead of a free trade zone for all the community as a whole may be candidates to be voted by an “academy” open-source lamps, which must be by secret ballot.
What do you think Richard Stallman is the most important project of the free software of the year? What Linus Torvalds’ Linux? What is Nicholas Negroponte, the screams, is the largest open-source software for education? A ceremony to award the Oscars of the Open Source could light on what excited, the upper part of the industry thinkers – and even better, all struggles and struggles, which is the source!
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