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A New Free Software Donation Directory
Wolfgang Spraul writes: "CoSource and SourceXchange are closed. They became part of the history of Open Source Software Markets. However, I still need a place where I can find maintainers or core developers of existing Free Software packages that accept my feature request and payment, implement the feature within a reasonable timeframe and give me support if it doesn't work in my environment.
Since no such place is in sight, I launched the Free Software Donation Directory as a first step. What do you think? How should the next Free Software market look like? Should there be one at all?" Right now, he's got around 20 projects listed, if you care to invest in some Free software.
Link.
Free software sucks, dude! It's all buggy and stuff. Why not just get a Dell! It comes with Windows XP! Totally cool, man! You are so getting a Dell, man!
Dude... you are so getting a Dell!
nothin' like a generous helping of meth to start the day!
"someone should make a hot air balloon that is shaped like a giant vagina" -- Bill Clinton
I'm bout to open my wallet and make free software better!
so MOVE bitch get out the way.
You better not walk in fron my tour bus.
You get what you pay for
You can't even afford your own domain.. How are you going to get support for developers?
free software and open source operates on premises
that are remarkably similair to the ideas of SOCIAL THREEFOLDING.
basically, instead of a tee-ter-totter of supply and demand*,
it works more like a transistor -- regulating the supply and
demand in accordance with actual human need.
that's a lot like free software -- people have software needs,
and they need to support the livelihood of programmers for the
duration of the time they are creating a software product.
but the human need (daily supply for food, house, machines)
is not directly connected to the VALUE he creates for the
money it takes to support his/her life. there's a disconnect.
so supporting the producers takes up a certain amount of value,
which sends out much greater value to the community 'for free' - in
terms of sharing source and code with anyone that OPTS-INTO the POOL.
for working within this sort of framework,
there's no better (heavy-reading but short 7 pages) article
here.:
SOCIAL THREEFOLDING
http://home.earthlink.net/~johnrpenner/Articles/S
regards,
john.
1 out of every 5 stories is begging for money.
Say no to internet panhandling today!
You completely missed the point, fuckwit. I didn't think it was possible to get your head up that far up your ass.
Credits: 70%
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our governme
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