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I agree with the article, I have posted my senior year project here before and it's great to get feedback. CmdrTaco wrote me and told me to keep hacking at it. As you can probably tell I haven't done as much hacking as I should, I've been busy with a VC startup. It was still great to get some feedback, especially from the founder of slashdot! I will probably do something similar when I have something to show for my new company.

Slashdot is an excellent group of people to get some feedback from because they are generally more willing to put up with bugs and poor layout to try out some new tech. They are also more likely to give their brutally honest opinion, as I'm sure your all well aware of.

How long before someone bootstraps a distributed Artificial life simulator to their virus and then we all watch in amazement as the first AI evolves and owns all our computers. This could never happen though...right?

Slashrank

It's always good to see linux being adopted elsewhere but I worry about HP's commitment to helping the opensource community. It looks like they sponsor a few project here but thats seems like a far cry from IBM's investment in open source. So my question is this. Do you think HP is simply profiteering off the backs of generous open source developers or are they doing enough as is?

Slashrank

Excuse me, linux was more unix like. I remember when I switched from slackware to redhat back in the 5.2 days. This was back when the new gnome libs were just coming out and I had no idea it would be where it is today. Many of the tools back then were direct rip-offs of common UNIX tools. It's good to see Linux making it's own path these days and I hope it continues. We need to be the leader, not following one.

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I've been using pygtk on and off for the last year or so and i've got to say that when used in combination with glade it's a real dream to work in. I think if a Visual Basic like IDE could be created for those who are afraid of the deep end of text editor, command line tool development we could have a real open source Visual Basic killer on our hands. And i'll take that over C#/Mono any day of the week.

slashrank

How much of the site needs to be copied or "quoted" before this represents an offense. Clearly at slashdot we benefit from "quoting" parts of sites and then we provide a link, but is this steeling the thunder from the orignal sites we link to? Probably not. Take my site for example slashrank.org it takes some content from slashdot and links to it. Is this OK? I'd say that like slashdot it doesn't "steal the thunder" so to speak from the original and is therfore acceptable.

Computer Associates said its license for Linux is part of a legal settlement with Canopy Group, SCO's major shareholder. In August, Computer Associates signed the SCO license and paid $40 million to Canopy Group to settle breach-of-contract charges, but news of that deal surfaced only recently on Web sites. (Additional reporting by Wei Gu in New York)

It looks like SCO may have tacked on a Linux license rider clause to their much stronger case settlement - the breach-of-contract charge - to use as a publicity stunt such as this or just to extract a little more money from the CA coffers.

Slashrank

Why don't you send a message to the people on the top of this list. Apparently everyone here loves 'em. :)