[Box Backup] Box Backup in IBM Linux on POWER contest

[Martin Ebourne]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 08:18, Ben Summers wrote:
> Box Backup is in "Tier 2", which means the prize is a shiny new Apple 
> Mac, and I get a shiny new iPod mini for "judging" any ports -- 
> apparently regardless of whether anyone submits a port or not. All very 
> strange.
> 
> Annoyingly, Martin appears to be in the UK, so his work on 64bit-ness 
> can't help him get the prize.

Marvellous. A .com domain would be no trouble, and maybe even a US
postal address at a push... ;)

Such an exclusion by a big international company is very disappointing,
especially when open source (and even more so Linux!) is so
international, and indeed, the exclusion obviously doesn't apply to the
maintainers...

> Hopefully this will be a nice bit of publicity for the project. Being 
> 9th in the list makes it quite visible.

Although admittedly only on an alphabetical basis. :)

Cheers,

Martin.