A couple of technologies that I either use daily or am playing with won Ars Technica awards. Congrats to the Mono team for their Development Application of the Year nod, Ubuntu for their Best Newcomer to the Community recognition, and Beagle for the Most Anticipated Application honor (dubious though it may be ;).
Also kudos to Novell for winning the Most Improved in the Community award. Ars Technica backed up an earlier assertion of mine:
Fact or Fiction – Novells a good open source community member?
Fact. Theyd already demonstrated this with their donation of SuSEs YAST and Novells iFolder, but the connector announcement further backs up Novells promise to give back to the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) community, following on the heels of the YAST and iFolder GPL. While Novells motives here are hardly altruistic – not that they would claim them to be – these are not minor packages being GPLd, but important applications.
Congratulations to all the winners. It’s nice to see some of the more unheralded projects get some recognition.
