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If you are looking for indicators of success of an open source project, you have to first decide what success is.

I consider my project, The Java X10 Project, a success based on several factors:

First: I've had hundreds of downloads, and since I run this project on a Cable Modem connection, my ISP hasn't become unhappy :)
Second: I've had dozens of email's asking for support as well as asking how to contribute.
and Third and finally (I think this one is a very good indicator): There are other websites out there that link to my site.

Oh, and there's a fourth optional measure of success... more for bragging rights... my site is THE FIRST result when querying google with "Java X10".

All in all, it is a very small project, but I have tangibles that give me a sense of success. Will this ever reach the magnatude of Apache? Probably not, but gawd, I'd prefer it remain relatively small anyway where I can control it. :)

Mind you, Windows does install stuff without even asking. I guess - for a while - that's easier than typing a one-liner or clicking on items in a long list. (-:

And before you go on about lock-in to a single supplier (compared with Microsoft? Ahuk, ahuk...), you can add as many alternate package sources as you wish (GUI here, complete URPMI insructions here), some people have begun to notice how easy it is and even the putative lockers-in endorse it.

That is why you should read a technical analysis on TCPA and not biased FAQs... even better, read the TCPA open specification at the trusted computing homesite

It was over a year ago that Motorola announced this exact same thing. Sweaters with RFID? People laughed.

Motorola, Enemy of Privacy

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The url minus the typo.

And that, IMO, is the best reason to do something. For fun. I'm trying to run my own business (http://jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org. ATM it's not much more then a web page and a few screen shots, but I'm hoping by Mid-2003 it'll be a site that'll draw in the business as well as any other. Until I turn a profit, I do web design for fun. Why? Because I can.

I also like to write poetry, short stories and novels. Why? I find it fun and relaxing.

With any venture, you have to do it for the hell of it in the beginning. Worry about making money once you got all the details sorted out. Until then, have fun!

It's only to make them look good to the public, I guess. Inside the walls, it's more like this, ;)

DreamHack's own security and the swedish police

Download my list of spammers, which is updated every day or so:
http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt
Then dump it in /etc/firewall/blacklisted_nets and run a bash script:

for I in `cat /etc/firewall/blacklisted_nets`
do
echo Blacklisting Spammer: $I/23
iptables -A INPUT -s $I/23 -j REJECT
done

It puts a drag on the spammer's system as they try to send mail to you for 5 days or so before their mail server finally gives up and decides your domain is not reachable.

Of course you need to have your own domain to do this, but with Linux and free Dyn-DNS services, this is not a problem. And it WORKS!

I do the exact same thing - blacklist $IP_ADDRESS/23.
My list is available at:
http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt

Why do I get so much spam from kornet.net and other Korean networks?
The reason they all have broadband is that a handful of stupid Westerners (I'd say they would be Americans) are replying to their spam and buying penis enlargements and such, and funding the broadband explosion.
I am maintaining a list of IP address of spammers, which can be found at: http://enthalpy.homelinux.org/spammers.txt and I assure you, they are 90% Korean arse-lickers.
The other 10% are from UUNet.