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OSCON:And the winners are...
Proof you can make money with open source software: Here are the winners of the first ever Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards, handed out at the OSCON conference in Portland, Tuesday evening. Sure, the winners only got $5,000 each, but that's more than most open source developers get for their late nights and dedication.
Communicator: Internet pioneer Doc Searls, co-author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto" and a Senior Editor for Linux Journal
Evangelist: Jeff Waugh, who manages to find time to pitch for both Ubuntu Linux and Gnome desktop environment
Diplomat: Geir Magnusson Jr of Apache
Integrator: D. Richard Hipp (SQLite)
Hacker: David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails and 37Signals)
Congrats to all the winners! Drinks are on you!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
