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If I have google or Microsoft type money, I would setup Nobel price like $$$ for multiple developers who makes significant contributions to open source projects
by srcmap 12y ago
If I have google or Microsoft type money, I would setup Nobel price like $$$ for multiple developers who makes significant contributions to open source projects every year.
- fijal 12y agoIf google recognizes you as an open source contributor who does something significant, you get couple hundred $$$ worth of credit in their store (I wish I were joking)
- tonyplee 12y agoComputer/software industrial is big and rich enough to have our own Nobel type Award for significant contributors to the Art, Design and Science of Computer/Software. Good PR, karma, ego boost for everyone work in the fields. Like "Academy of motion picture arts and sciences" - "Academy of Computer Sciences, Software and Design" All winners get A Golden Keyboard and $1 million real cash. If I have choice, I would like to nominate: "Dennis Ritchie" - inventor of C language. "Bill Joy" inventor of gdb. "Guido van Rossum" inventor of Python "Brendan Eich" inventor of Javascript. "Linux" "AT&T System V" "BSD"
- ProblemFactory 12y agoNote that Dennis Ritchie already received the Turing award in 1983 for inventing and writing UNIX. In fact, more than half of the Turing awards are for practical inventions and software: work on programming languages and compilers, TCP/IP, operating systems, relational databases. And even many of awarded "theoretical" achievements had working software that demonstrated or automated the maths parts. I'm not arguing against an "Art and Design" award - but just noting that the Turing award is not that far off, it covers Computer Science contributions much more widely than just proving CS maths theorems.