Code4Bill

[KingBahamut]

Addressing 5,000 developers in Bangalore, Bill Gates announced the Code4Bill contest, a nationwide talent hunt which will begin in January and last eight months. Twenty finalists will receive internships with Microsoft India before one Superhero is selected to join Mr. Gates's own team.

External Links
http://news.com.com/Prize+in+Indian+talent+search+A+year+on+Bill+Gates s+team/2100-1001_3-5990123.html?tag=nefd.top

Go figure he'd hit all the people OUTSIDE of the united states with this.

Hmmm.....Who wants to Code4Bill?

[xequence]

Enter a linux program in the contest.

[newbie2]

kinda reminds me on this -->
A Scottish teen spent the past six months helping Microsoft fix a hole in Windows and in return got squat.

Nineteen-year-old IT pro Matt Thompson played software Good Samaritan when he found an error in Redmond's Jet Database Engine while working for a client of his employer, Aberdeen IT.

Thompson swapped code with the behemoth for months, helping them remedy a bug in which a hacker could get complete control over an affected system. For his trouble and diligence, all Thompson got was a lame one-sentence thank you on Microsoft's Web site - not even a lousy Xbox.

According to the BBC, "Mr. Thompson said that he initially had difficulty convincing Microsoft it had a problem." Welcome to the club, kid.
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/004844.html

[Lovechild]

let's see.. code4bill.. could they have come up with a lamer name for their scam?

I'm announcing kickass4Mark, everyone who converts a Windows user will get a personalised thank you note from me for kicking *** in the name of freedom!

*edit*
I decided to offer free tech support to new users in return for conversions - convert4Lovechild today!

http://lovesunix.net/blog/?p=17

[23meg]

We'll see the how the level of innovation in there compares to Google's "Summer Of Code", from which lots of projects including Ubuntu greatly benefited. And probably just laugh.

[linbetwin]

You've misread the fine print, the actual name is
Code4a1$Bill

[prizrak]

I remember reading about some 9 year old girl in India who loves computers and made some kick *** program and the devil err... I mean Gates himself came down to talk to her and how she said that her life long dream was to work for MS. Where were the parents at when that happened?!

[BWF89]

I remember reading about some 9 year old girl in India who loves computers and made some kick *** program and the devil err... I mean Gates himself came down to talk to her and how she said that her life long dream was to work for MS. Where were the parents at when that happened?!
Probably jumping up and down celebrating.

[prizrak]

Probably jumping up and down celebrating.
Ida punished my kid if he/she wanted to work for MS (unless it was for the purpose of destroying them from the inside)

[YourSurrogateGod]

We'll see the how the level of innovation in there compares to Google's "Summer Of Code", from which lots of projects including Ubuntu greatly benefited. And probably just laugh.
What's that? Do you have a link?

[23meg]

What's that? Do you have a link?
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html