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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. This sucks by aminorex · · Score: 2, Troll

    Why don't they fund the original authors and
    contributors to provide the desired enhancements
    instead of locking them out? Sure. Screw the
    innovators and featherbed your pals. This is just
    corrupt, and there's no way any of my companies will
    be contributing to that fund. Cronyism pretending
    to be public service. Pffft.

    --
    -I like my women like I like my tea: green-
  2. Suck my wideness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    .I.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACKabcdefghijklmno .pI.like.wide.pages.I.wish.all.pages.could.be.as.w .ide.as.this.dont.you.wide.pages.are.much.cooler.t .han.those.narrow.pages.you.are.used.to.reading.be .cause.you.dont.have.to.worry.about.the.lameness.f .ilter.telling.you.that.you.don't.have.enough.char .aters.per.line.that.really.sucks.when.that.happen .s.and.you.have.to.put.some.lame.lameness.filter.d .efeater.text.in.there.i.wonder.how.many.people.wi .ll.read.this.whole.comment.I.certainly.hope.it.do .esnt.annoy.too.many.people.This.is.just.the.begin .ning.because.PAGE.WIDENING.IS.BACK
  3. Re:please no more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just farted.

  4. Re:Peer-to-peer pioneer kills self by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It boils down to guilt. According to his friends, Kan was obsessed with his own indirect role in the theft of millions of dollars of copyrighted material. Kan suffered unbearable pangs of guilt as a result of his criminal behavior. He saw no honorable way out other than suicide.

    This is how the oriental mind works. Honor and "saving face" are very important in that culture. The only way for Kan to "save face" was to make things right again by taking his own life. It is an honorable tradition as old as China itself.

  5. I thought... by Sam+Lowry · · Score: 0, Troll

    That BitTorrent is not Free as in speech and is not even completely free as in beer.