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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. Tom Jennings by Pathwalker · · Score: 5, Informative

    He has done a lot more than FidoNet - take a look at some of the artwork he's done recently. ( I suggest taking a look at the Story Teller - very very cool...)

    He also has lots of info on Nixie tubes and builds some cool looking clocks with them (to tie into the earlier /. articles on nixie clocks from a few months back).

  2. What's the point? by chris_sawtell · · Score: 4, Informative

    BitTorrent works absolutely perfectly.
    Somebody has more money than sense. Just reward the BitTorrent author, if you want to splash money around.