Mickey Segal said:
Sun is offering some impressive prizes for those who submit JRE 1.6 bugs
from Jan 31 through March 31, 2006:
https://mustang.dev.java.net/regchal/
One more reason to stamp out bugs.
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but I think most of us already have
plenty of T-shirts.
The workstations they are giving away are, of course, much more impressive
but they are only giving away 5 of those and they are apparently going to
have a committee choose who will get them. I don't know how many regression
bugs they will get - hundreds? thousands? - but I'm guessing it will be a
lot more than five. And if I were setting the criteria for this committee, I
would probably have them select the bug that would have cost Sun or its
customers the most money if undiscovered. So, even if you find a bug - or
several bugs - what are the odds of finding one of the most expensive bugs?
workstation?
While the odds are probably a lot better to win this than your local
government lottery, you're probably also going to have to do a lot more work
to earn a ticket. It sounds a lot like a way to get us to do work for them
at far less cost than they would incur if they paid people to do it for
them.
Let's just say I'm underwhelmed by this "opportunity".