Sun Dangles Prize Money Over Open-Source Efforts

[HardOCP News]

Simon Phipps, the guy in charge of all things open-source at Sun, says his company will be announcing a new award program meant to spur growth and activity within the company's open-source efforts. Mr. Phipps’ comments about launching the program in India have raised the ire of more than a few in the open source community.

I'm announcing it in India because that's where I expect the greatest open source community growth to come from in the near future - the FOSS.IN programme committee relaunched their CfP a while back with this in mind. If we can play a part in catalyzing the emergence of India as a key international open source power-house, the effect on the software industry will be huge. Not to exclude others in the region of course, so much is going on there.

 

[Azhar]

Speaking of large computer company dangling money at people, who won that employment deal with Cisco for making up a plan to reap in - what was it? $10 billion in the next year or so?

lol