Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards

An anonymous reader writes: A couple months ago, we discussed news that Mozilla was planning to give back to the open source projects they rely on, to the tune of $1 million. Now, Mozilla has announced the first round of awards, giving out $503,000 in the process. The biggest payout, $200,000, went to Bro, who makes network monitoring software. They plan to use the funds to create "a public repository for sharing 3rd-party scripts and plug-ins." The Django project received $150,000, and they'll use it to "rewrite the core of Django to support (among other things) WebSockets and background tasks," and a few other goodies. Mercurial was awarded $75,000, which will go toward "better support for 'blame' (showing who last changed some code) and a better web UI." Also receiving awards were Read The Docs ($48,000), Discourse ($25,000), CodeMirror ($20,000), and BuildBot ($15,000).

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[nickweller]

fuck off and die ..

Moz-who?

[Locke2005]

Yet another organization desperately struggling to appear still relevant? Welcome to the club! You'll meet the many existing members like Yahoo.. and look, over in the corner, there's MySpace! (Ok, I'm forced to use Firefox on my work Linux system only because I don't have any admin priviledge to install anything else.)

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[Zero__Kelvin]

Well, if you have KDE there is Konqueror

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[Zero__Kelvin]

Perhaps you were unaware that there are other Linux distributions than the one you use? I didn't say it was guaranteed toi be there. I didn't even say KDE was guaranteed to be there. So clearly it is true that some systems will have it and some won't. I suppose I should have made that more clear.

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[mattventura]

I'll start:
How could they donate money to an organization called "bro"? That's a completely sexist name and Mozilla shouldn't support this kind of misogyny! /s

Come to think of it, it's actually really sad that I have to put a /s on that, lest someone take this kind of sarcasm seriously a la this [github.com].

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[Darinbob]

Bad-Reputation-Online.

Open Source Awards

[Stormy Dragon]

A couple months ago, we discussed news that Mozilla was planning to give back to the open source projects they rely on, to the tune of $1 million. Now, Mozilla has announced the first round of awards, giving out $503,000 in the process.

Oracle immediately created a fork where Larry Elison won all the awards.

I'm surprised

[alvinrod]

I'm surprised that they even allowed an organization named Bro to participate given how offensive it is [slashdot.org].

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[SilentChasm]

Their making up for it in other ways such as their $15,000 donation to Buildbot:

Their award will be used to remove the term "slave" from all documentation, APIs and tests

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[SilentChasm]

In before someone points out I used the wrong "they're".

WTF?

[Zontar The Mindless]

I did not donate money to Mozilla back in the day in order for them to be able to spend six figures on PR. Fuck that noise. If they can afford that nonsense, they can afford to send me a refund. With about 15 years' interest.

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[Zontar The Mindless]

No, it's more like giving someone begging on the street corner for food money and then seeing them in a Brook Bros suit with a hooker on either arm six months later.

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[gringer]

It wasn't particularly difficult to predict that this would happen, because they've done it before:

http://slashdot.org/comments.p... [slashdot.org]

FWIW, Wikipedia does the same sort of thing.

Tor Project

[Anonymous Coward]

I really hope a big chunk of the next wave goes to the Tor Project. Mozilla is getting a lot back in the way of security & privacy oversight through the Tor Browser Bundle, as well as a great showcase for how Mozilla projects are helping to liberate people in oppressed nations like China, North Korea, and the United States.

Re: Tor Project

[zaphirplane]

Or ... A mail client say ... Thunderbird

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[Zero__Kelvin]

Those are two different - almost warring - factions. Slashdot used to be the place to go for Open Source news and discussions. These days a lot of anti-FOSS people come here. If they aren't paid shills then I can't imagine why they come here, but they do. I doubt you will see many people with lower Slashdot User Numbers like myself complaining. It is mostly ACs and people with absurdly huge Slashdot ID Numbers that are anti-FOSS..

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[Zero__Kelvin]

No. It's that they are Anti-FOSS. You are no doubt correct that there is a faction that are pro- good software regardless of whether it is open source or not. I know this because I fall into that camp, even though I am very zealous toward Linux and Good FOSS tools, if I need AutoCAD and somebody points me toward a Windows box with AutoCAD on it, I'll use it happily in a heartbeat. Still, I hate Microsoft because I understand them. Now, here's the problem:

I said there was an anti-FOSS faction here, and

Bro?

[klapek]

So they support project with a "offensive" name? http://tech.slashdot.org/story... [slashdot.org]

Mozilla wastes more money than Wikmedia.

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine how good firefo would be if Mozilla didn't waste its money. Hopefully Donald Trump will be elected and send the tax auditors after Mozilla.