Vote for Patrick or AlienBob as Linux person of the year! :)
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Voted PV, but had to flip a coin due to EH's Slackware Live and his many contributions for the Team and on LQ. Wunderbar!
Slackware has impacted my computing life quite a bit for over 2 decades. EVERYTHING here runs Slackware. Openwrt is nice, but if I could get Slackware on the wifi router, I would!
Code:
$ uname -a
Linux pippin 4.1.15-smp #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 20:03:17 CST 2015 i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N280 @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Nice to see Stallman and Volkerding acknowledged this way and near their rightful positions at top of the list.
Also nice to see Eric Hameleers included - he has been a very important and productive contrinutor, and pathfinder, for a very long time. Although he is probably less well known to many by name, his good work will continue to speak for itself, and for him!
Also nice to see Eric Hameleers included - he has been a very important and productive contrinutor, and pathfinder, for a very long time. Although he is probably less well known to many by name, his good work will continue to speak for itself, and for him!
Indeed! We have 64 bit Slackware thanks to Eric. We have an amazing Slackware team.
At current rate and time of count, PV needs 39 more votes to surpass LP for 2nd seat.
you mean approximately the votes of Erics?
was possible not that wise to split Slacker's votes and lobby Eric into the vote. Congratulation to whoever here who had that much enthusiasm.
It would seem so. The Sith and the Jedi both must use the force and get PV into the first seat now.
In all seriousness though. Man of the Year should be someone who has done beneficial things towards the Open Source community, not bad mouthed BSD, caused enough turmoil in GNU/Linux that may never heal, divided entire communities, and catered only to fad-trending hipsters who had no clue what GNU/Linux was, is, or about, except to be trendy, cool, and hip till Windows 10 came along and jumped ship.
How do we discover the mechanics and rules of this vote? Is it possible to vote more than once and lose one's previous vote? Or, does this popularity contest have an agenda? This is the burning question now.
If it's logged via IP address, then changing your IP address would allow for multiple votes from multiple machines, not counting cellular phones, public IPs, and such. If it was registered voting then yeah fewer issues. If MAC ID + IP + Account, then it's harder to spoof votes.
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