The open-source community have spoken. The winners of the Sourceforge.net 2008 Community Awards were announced and OpenOffice.org and phpMyAdmin grabbed more than one category. This year’s nomination were left open to any project or repository. 17 of the finalists were hosted outside of Sourceforge.net. The winners are:
2008 Community Choice Awards Winners
- Best Project – OpenOffice.org
- Best Project for the Enterprise – OpenOffice.org
- Best Project for Educators – OpenOffice.org
- Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition – phpMyAdmin
- Best Project for Multimedia – VLC
- Best Project for Gamers – XBMC
- Most Likely to Change the World – Linux
- Best New Project – Magento
- Most Likely to Be Ambiguously and Baselessly Accused of Patent Violation – Wine Is Not an Emulator
- Most Likely to Get Users Sued by Anachronistic Industry Associations Defending Dead Business Models – eMule
- Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins – phpMyAdmin
- Best Tool or Utility for Developers – Notepad++