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Which Open Source Projects Are -Really- Collaborative?
An Anonymous Coward asks: "I'm a highly competent and occasionally respected software engineer, who has worked on several Open Source/Free Software projects; some of my code is in the Linux kernel. Within the OSS
community, we maintain that the main point of publicly announcing OSS projects is to invite programmers to join the project and collaborate to make better software. But in about 90% of cases, I've found that publicly announced projects in development are not actually open to new members - the project leaders will ignore unsolicited code, won't respond to emailed queries or suggestions,
and in many cases the projects in question remain in an early stage of development forever." What projects do you know of that don't make an issue out of incorporating user submitted patches and design changes, and what projects put forth huge restrictions on such submissions, even to the point of not accepting them at all?
"This happens even when the project has explicitly asked for collaboration, and it happens when the project leaders are big names in the OSS community as well as when they're relative unknowns. So my question is, who actually collaborates? Which projects make unsolicited development effort worthwhile by making it part of something bigger?"
...is the freedom to troll. Because trolling is a dissenting opinion. But trolling is gone, maybe forever. The last nail in the coffin is the automatic insertion of the correct url between braces. No longer can we post links to the Whitehouse, the Vatican, or the Ku Klux Klan and hope it goes unnoticed. Now the extremists won. This is moderator power to the extreme. Bye, bye liberty, slashdot has won in the end :(
Linus Torvalds is gay. I know it from reliable sources
Just beware: you might just Fork Off And Die.
Read this site. You will never be the same
again.
I think you mean Linus, not Linux. :)
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Ur-Reality is here. p.s. fuck the postercomment compression shite.
Welcome to hell.
p.s. compression filter is shite. thank you
What are you fucking gay? What's with those '*g*'s??? Are you like getting boned up the ass and grinning and giggling?
They tend to develop into little circle-jerk competitions of elitism. "Your stuff's not cool. I'm not giving away mine". Just like the C64 piratism scene before people realised that everybody would be far better off if things were shared freely without stupid upload/download ratios.
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I'd like to lick Helen Hunt's anal orifice - to infinity and beyond.
Die and go to hell.
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is that this is posted on Slashdot. Ever tried to get a change/improvement incorporated in Slash? You'd have more success getting people to call it GNU/Linux.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered troll community when last month IDC confirmed that "*BSD is dying" trolls accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Slashdot posts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that "*BSD is dying" trolls have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. "*BSD is dying" trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive trolling test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the future of "*BSD is dying" trolls. The hand writing is on the wall: "*BSD is dying" trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for "*BSD is dying" trolls because "*BSD is dying" trolls are dying. Things are looking very bad for "*BSD is dying" trolls. As many of us are already aware, "*BSD is dying" trolls continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Troll leader Anonymouse Coward states that there are 7000 goatse.cx trolls. How many ascii art trolls are there? Let's see. The number of goatse.cx versus ascii art posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 ascii art trolls. "*BSD is dying" posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of ascii art posts. Therefore there are about 700 "*BSD is dying" trolls. A recent article put "first post" at about 80 percent of the troll market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 "first post" trolls. This is consistent with the number of first posts.
All major surveys show that "*BSD is dying" trolls have steadily declined in market share. "*BSD is dying" is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If "*BSD is dying" trolls are to survive at all it will be among troll hobbyist dabblers. "*BSD is dying" continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, "*BSD is dying" is dead.
I personally know people who have been approached
by passive homosexuals who wanted to pay money so that someone would be the "active" participant. Yes, they were willing to pay money
so that they'd be literally fucked. That's "gay rights" for ya.
Lenin is dead.