Good Afternoon,
I need to ask the group about something I don't understand, and I am
hoping that you can shed some light on it for me.
At Linux World last week CA announced a million-dollar challenge to the
Open Source community basically stating that we'd give cash awards (of
up to $400,000.00 - total $1,000.000.00 purse) for the best conversion
utilities that were created for migrating from various databases to the
newly Open Sourced Ingres v3.0.
I thought that the Open Source community would welcome that move, but
instead we've been trashed. Everything from "a million dollars is a
pittance" to "did you notice that only a very select few countries are
invited" followed by a few more less than kind remarks.
So...here is what I don't understand, and what I am asking you help in
understanding is why it seems the Open Source community is being so hard
on CA? We are funding several Open Source projects, we've Open Sourced
our Ingres DB, and we're offering up a total purse of one million bucks
to those who write and submit database conversion tools from XXX to
Ingres.
>From my perspective, these are all good things. However, it appears as
either I have totally missed something here, or I just happen to be
seeing the worst of the comments.
Any help in understanding this would be appreciated.
Dave
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