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(Via Twitter.)

JavaFX.com:

Prizes

• 1st Place: $25,000
  
  
• 2nd Place: $10,000
  
  
• 3rd Place: $5,000

Student category: We will award three prizes at $1,500 each to the top three applications submitted by students. Student submissions will compete for the larger prize amounts as well, but only one prize per entry will be awarded.

Up to 100 honorable mention prizes of a $25 Amazon Gift certificate will be rewarded. (Restrictions apply for international users.)

The era of "getting paid to use their software" has arrived. It's the next logical step of Free Software and Open Source. (I heard Doug Schmidt say it at least five years ago, may be ten.)

What are you waiting for? Go register and start hacking!

<shameless-self-promotion>Oh, here's just the book that night help you getting started (It's still in alpha (the book, not the technology), available as ebook chapters, blah, blah,...):</shameless-self-promotion>

And I still have a few free ebook coupon left. Email weiqigao at speakeasy dot net to get it.