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Public Software Fund's First Project

Posted by michael on from the money-where-your-mouth-is dept.

Russ Nelson writes "The Public Software Fund's first project has been funded for two months worth of development. Tom Jennings (of Fidonet fame) will be writing software to do peer-to-peer file sharing of free software RPM packages, improving the existing free software packages up2date, /current/, and BitTorrent. This will keep new distro releases from being slashdotted."

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  1. Wait til the RIAA hears about this! by buzzbomb · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I'm not mistaken, N'Sync has a little-known song named "apache.tgz". Also, Brititany has done "kernel-2.4.19.tgz".

    Oh, well...it was a nice idea while it lasted.

    ;)