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Mapping The Corporate Open Source World?
jukal asks: "I am building a contact database about open source activities and their contacts in large companies. It will be a kind of 'mindmap' positioning each of the big players, listing their key characteristics, their publically stated views on Open Source, and possible connections between the activities of the companies. Could you provide me with a helping hand to get started. Yes, I am doing this for the purposes of Openchallenge but I believe many others would benefit as well. I would like to map the open source world from the 'corporate viewing point' :) Post the details - or anything you got - here, or directly to me [/. profile] And as there will anyway be someone saying 'Go Google It Yourself' - If you think it's Google-able, give it a shot. If this has been already done, then that would be excellent!"
Do you think all these people will mind you putting their names and contact information into a huge database?
Name: Steve Ballmer
Position: CEO
Company:Microsoft
View on open source: cancer
Unfortionatly, slashdotters motivation and hunger for this "karma" substance doesnt seem to extend to doing any actual work.
Maybe if you tried the "dollar" substance, you might get better results.
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Don't forget the BSD guys at Apple. Hubbard springs immediately to mind, but I think there are others, as well.
How you would find them I dunno, really--hang out in newsgroups? Post ads?
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Assuming all of the information you're looking for is publically available, can you post a list of the fields needed for all the companies? Otherwise, nobody really knows where to start.
How many bodies can you hire to keep it up to date? :)
Name: Michael O'Connell (moc(a)us.ibm.com)
Position: Editor-in-chief of DeveloperWorks
Company: IBM
"Our mission is to help you be a better software programmer, a more productive (and perhaps more rested, less stressed) coder.
We hope to help you unleash the full power of hardware and operating systems, bridge multiple platforms, and be more successful through the use of open standards and cross-platform technologies such as Java, Linux, XML, and open source projects. developerWorks offers articles, sample code, tutorials, tools, news, discussion forums, emerging technologies -- virtually anything developers like you want and need to get your job done.
The developerWorks team is passionate about open standards and technologies. We tap into relevant expertise and perspective from both inside and outside IBM. We are developers, researchers, journalists, and business people critically seeking and leveraging the technical breadth and depth from the 100,000-person-strong technical community of IBM. (Note: IBM invests about $6 billion/year on research and is dedicated to helping customers integrate business systems through the use of open, cross-platform standards). We combine this collection of IBM talent and resources with a hand-picked assembly of independent industry-leading developers." -http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/aboutdw/
"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
It might be better to have some sort of website somewhere with a form for people to use to fill out that contact database for you, rather than trying to somehow harvest that data from /. posts. If people believe in this idea, they'll volunteer their time to help make this a very thorough database.
Negro culture is not merely DIFFERENT from White culture; it is a LESS ADVANCED culture and, by practically any standard, INFERIOR. It is a culture which never advanced to the point of a written language or a civilized society. It never saw even the barest glimmerings of mathematics or the invention of the wheel. The smelting and use of metals and the quarrying and dressing of stone for architectural purposes are crafts that were taught to the Negro by members of other races. The hokum currently being served up in the schools about a centuries-old Negro "civilization" based on the ruins of stone walls found at Zimbabwe, in Rhodesia [note: at the time of this writing, the country was still called Rhodesia] is simply the product of wishful thinking by proponents of racial equality who are willing to ignore all facts which conflict with their equalitarian mania.
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... While with the latter the volume of the brain grows with the expansion of the brainpan, in the former the growth of the brain is on the contrary arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone."
...." ...."
Negro culture inferiority is the consequence of the physical inadequacy of the Negro brain in dealing with abstract concepts. On the other hand, the Negro shows an ability approaching that of the White at mental tasks requiring only memory. That is why the Negro can be trained relatively easily to adapt to many aspects of White culture.
His verbal ability and his ability to imitate allow him, when properly motivated, to assume much of the outward appearance of "equality." In a decade of special college-admission quotas for Blacks, many thousands of Blacks have obtained college diplomas -- but only in those disciplines in which a glib tongue and a good memory suffice. There have been virtually no Black graduates in the physical sciences and very few in engineering.
Thus the Negroes inability to handle the abstract concepts required in problem-solving and technological innovation make a mockery of outward appearances. And this inability is genetic in nature, rooted in the physical structure of the Negro brain.
Until the post-World War II campaign to blend the White and Negro races began in earnest, the Negro's mental limitations were common knowledge. The 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, says of the Negro, in part:
"...Other characteristics appear to be hypertrophy of the organs of excretion, a more developed venous system, and a less voluminous brain, as compared with the White races."
"In certain of the characteristics mentioned above the Negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the White man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids
"Mentally the Negro is inferior to the White
And the 1932 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana lists, among the distinguishing characteristics of the Negro race, the following:
"3. Weight of brain, 35 ounces (in gorilla 20 ounces, average Caucasian 45 ounces)
"8. Exceedingly thick cranium, enabling him to use the head as a weapon of attack
"14. The cranial sutures, which close much earlier in the Negro than in other races."
As the media stepped up their flow of "equality" propaganda, later editions of these encyclopedias simply deleted the racial data on Blacks. One had to turn to specialized medical texts to learn that the associative areas of the brain, where abstract thought takes place, are less developed in the Negro than in the White.
It has been well known since the large-scale intelligence testing of U.S. Army recruits in World War I that the average Negro IQ is approximately 15 per cent below that of the average White. Apologists for the Blacks have tried to explain away the earlier test scores as being due to the effects of segregated schools and Black poverty; i.e. they claimed the tests were "culturally biased."
Later IQ tests, however, showed essentially the same degree of Black deficiency in IQ: whether Black graduates of integrated high schools were tested against White graduates of the same schools, or Blacks in a certain socio-economic category against similarly categorized Whites, the Blacks always scored substantially lower, even though standard IQ tests measure memory skills as well as purely associative ability. Tests which focus on the latter type of mental function show a much larger difference between Black and White scores.
But it is precisely the ability to associate concepts, to deal with abstractions, to mentally extrapolate the present into the future that has allowed the White race to build and maintain its civilization, and it is the Negro's deficiency in this regard which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America. That is why it is vitally important for every White person to understand that there can be no such thing as "equality" between Whites and Blacks, regardless of the amount of racial mixing forced on Americans by the government.
http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Mapping+The+Corpo rate+Open+Source+World&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Go ogle+Search
An urgent matter of national security has come to my attention. A devious Iranian twink with an ego to match Rob Malda's is exercising a reign of terror on irc.slashnet.org. In this essay I will detail where Emad El-Haraty ("Emad") came from, how he created his power-base, and what he intends to do with it. Some of the content may shock you. Though used to paranoia, faggotry, and blatant egoism, trolls are not used to dealing with issues of international terrorism. Hopefully this essay will prepare you before it's too late.
Personal Background
Emad was born in a donkey stable in Mustfuq, Iran, in 1982, shortly after the beginning of the heated Iran-Iraq war. His parents were lowly dung farmers, and Emad was destined to inherit his father's trade. However, six years later the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on a tour of the nation celebrating the Iranian "victory" over Iraq, took a liking to six year old Emad. The Ayatollah demanded that the child become a page in his entourage.
Apparently being a page in the Ayatollah's entourage meant lots and lots of gay sex with his Holiness, and Emad was soon introduced to Iranian faggotry. Six year old Emad was forced to stroke the Ayatollah's beard and jack him off while whispering "I love you, Holy Grandfather," in the Ayatollah's ear. Upon ejaculation Emad would to lick the Ayatollah's seed from the ground and snowball it into the Ayatollah's mouth.
When, in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini passed into the next world, Emad was shattered. Being only seven he couldn't understand why the love of his life had left him. Emad became depressed and left the holy court in an attempt to quench his faggot thirst for beards and hard uncircumcised cocks.
Technology Beckons
In 1993, after years of hard life on the streets of Iran's dirtiest cities and whoring his hairless young body at the drop of a sheckle, eleven year old Emad met up with a group of Iranian hackers. Being fat and smelling typically like armpits, these hackers hadn't had sex in years. Young Emad, his smooth body full of promise, seemed to be the answer. They offered him room and board so long as he would feed any sexual urges the hackers had.
Emad picked up computer skills alongside the scat parties held by the lonely hackers. Between sucking farts and eating spicy Iranian turds directly from the hackers' asses, Emad learned Linux userland utilities. For every time Emad's anus was stretched and his rectum torn by eager gay faggot Iranian hacker cock, he learned a new Linux kernel compile option. Every quart of semen that found its way to Emad's stomach cooresponded to a deluge of Linux lingo and elitist thought. And by the time 1997 rolled around, Emad was virtually one of the hackers, save that he could take the largest of dark meat in his ass with nary a gasp or twitch. It was then that Emad was told the Iranian Secret.
The Great Satan
America, Emad was told by the Iranian Linux hackers, was the Great Satan, the enemy of all the virtues and truths and graces of the Muslim religion. It was a Jihad, Emad was further told, to destroy America and all it stood for. This was the reason why Linux was created, and this was the reason why the Iranians had adopted it as their OS of choice and trained legions of hackers. Emad's eyes grew wide and lit up as the truth washed over him. Years of taking dick in every orifice available finally meant more than just the pleasure he gained from it. Emad knew he could destroy America through its own faggot underground and the Linux skills he had learned.
Emad was on a plane days later, ready to take on America and make its hackers pay.
Enter Slashdot
By 1999, the Year of the Beast, Emad had been living in squalor in Long Island, in the midst of Jews. He had been trying to hook himself up with the anti-American faggot hacker underground, but so far had just been successful in luring men, mostly Jews, back to his economy apartment for round after round of scat sex. The turds weren't as spicy in America, as they always said, but the lack of pork grease in the Jewish brownmeat was a welcome change from what he knew. And then one day, while cleaning up his diarhea-splattered walls and piss-soaked sheets and pillows, he found a piece of paper that had fallen out of his partner's pocket. It contained only the web address http://slashdot.org/.
Minutes later Emad was logged in and turned on. He had found his means to take down America; he had found America's gay homosexual cock-lusting faggot hacker culture.
irc.slashnet.org
After posting frequently to Slashdot, Emad became aquainted with its Rogues' Gallery of editors: Rob Malda, Editor-in-Chief, terrible speller, and Faggot Supreme; Hemos, the bitchboy of Open Source and Free Software leaders; Emmet, the fat, sweaty Steve Jobs wannabe; Timothy, gullible Timothy, who made it feel alright to buy the hype; and Michael Sims, faggot Nazi editor / censorer and minion of ESR. Emad was elated! He could fit right into this circle-jerk of talentless ego and maniacal homosexuality! A few emails later, he and Rob Malda had worked out a plan. Something was brewing at the Geek Compound, and Emad seemed to be the right man for the job. Slashdot was launching its own IRC network. And IRC networks need IRC Operators, supreme authorities of the chat servers.
Soon after, irc.slashnet.org went live, to the jubilation of gays and slashbots everywhere. Now they could interact in real time, while sitting naked and stinky in the safety of their own basements!
Emad's Gang
To Emad, his job was not work. It was joy. He got to kick, ban, devoice, password protect, and kline to his heart's content. He was a regular in #gay as well as #slashdot, and (ab)used his power as IRC Operator to hook himself up with new and exciting sexual partners. There was dwiii, the skinny, transparently-skinned faggot who likened himself a tech-elitist. He was hairless save for his genitals and his shoulders sloped near the top: a real twink! XirHo, whose name means "taker of dick in mouth joyously" in Mandarin, and who liked to play gay online email games, was another of Emad's favorites and soon had Emad hooked on trading gay erotica. DrDink was yet another depraved individual who had cleverly invented what is now know as "Chocolate Milk" in gay circles: after sucking off a huge throbbing gay dick, one would retain the semen in his mouth long enough to mix it with several squirts of diarrhea happily supplied by a fellow scat-loving donor. Emad was turned on by this and became fast friends with DrDink.
It wasn't long before Emad and his above he-bitches had a stranglehold on Slashnet, as he and Rob Malda had planned, and Slashnet was soon turned to promoting homosexuality. When individuals that fought for freedom and righteousness logged on, they were harassed and eventually banned from the server.
The Banned
Casualties in the war against Emad today include Vladinator, Slashdot enemy and admin of Geekizoid; Trollaxor, labelled subversive due to his attempts to proclaim the truth in public forums; and Error 808, who was considered too dangerous to allow on the server. To this day these heroes are still klined from irc.slashnet.org-- censorship in practice!
Summary
Hopefully you realize the depth of what I have just revealed to you. Emad is a desperate homosexual who has gathered a band of like-minded loser techie faggots and rules irc.slashnet.org with an iron fist in an attempt to undermine American values. His team, along with Slashdot, Open Source, and Free Software are slowly spreading STDs and homosexual thought among the youth of America's hacker culture. Unite before it's too late! You are now armed with the knowledge. Protect yourself and fight for freedom before you, too, become one of the censored!
I don't have the POC name at Cubic Systems, but you can try this email address for a query: oray612959@earthlink.net
XML causes global warming.
at the request of Microsoft or John Ashcroft? Aw shucks, does it matter?
I should have picked out the nickname Demosthenes!Tecumseh.
what the fuck are you talking about
SexyKellyOsborne Is A Troll (fuck you, i dont care if i spelled your name wrong whore)
Instead, if we take the for example the 500 biggest companies in the world - I would like to get a hunch on: what is their view on Open Source, what Open source related activities do they have going on (are they researching, do they have existing projects based on open source), what other companies are these activities linked to.
Or are you shilling for someone at the other end, about to be underfunded and hoping to get
a Redmond offer they can't refuse?
Ok, I now punched in webpage with a form for entering the data, you can access it here.
So what you're saying is, you want us to help you collect all this data and then not share it? I'm not saying you should share it, but if you're asking me to help you do something for your own personal interest, I'd like something out of it. ;-)
You may have some difficulty with the Fortune 500. As many of these companies are not tech industry companies, having a public stance on Open Source is irrelevant -- even if it's going on.
However, you could also check:
Instead of the Fortune 500, though, I might focus on the Fortunre e50. These are the biggest tech companies, and are more likely to be aware of, have an influence on, and be working with Open Source. Companies in other industries may have huge tech departments, but their core business isn't tech -- so Open Source is not necessarily something they think about, so they're less likely to have a specific view on Open Source. Tech companies generally will.
I can spell. I just can't type.
If you're willing to ask the people directly, you may have to sift through books listing contact information for investors. Pick your companies, and go to your library with a list, the librarian will point you to the books in the business section.
If you're asking about things said in articles, then you may want to get copyright issues squared away before you begin. Getting one hundred short quotes from Time might not be considered fair use.