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Affero's Hack-a-Thon
Henri Poole writes "I've got friends who ride their bikes for a week and get me and others to donate $100 to their cause. Spending more time on lists then roads, we've set up an analogous service for Free Software and Open Source projects. Substitute the physical sweat with a good hack, and you'll see the match. After you save your next newbie from tech-hell, just ask them to help your cause. In Lessig's blog, he writes "If there's one thing I've learned from watching, and tinkering, in this web-log space, it is that the many tiny brushstrokes of thousands paints more and more powerfully than the blast of even the most important and powerful papers...As I indicate on my Affero page, I count FSF and EFF as the two key players to support." And if you don't think you can make a difference, do this math: A $1 donation to the FSF for every user of GNU/Linux would increase their budget by 30 fold."
Wow, I didn't know Slashdot was in the business of giving away free advertising... Good to know!
You're new here, aren't you?
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Yeah, I could give my money to these people who will fight the scourge of the corporate world...or I can make a twenty minute phone call!
Wait, i'm reading Slashdot, that means that I don't have anyone to call, so i'll just give my buck to the EFF instead of Terry Bradshaw.
I don't keep a lid on my coffee so when I walk around I look busy -me
and I thought MY posts were really confusing...
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Hemos is still hungover from CmdrTaco's wedding.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
I ride my bike every day, and you're telling me I can get money for it?
I am wary of handing my bank details out over the internet, so if you are genuine please contact Mr.Abiola Williams at the Bank of Nigeria. He has all my account numbers.
:wq
Is it just me, or does anyone else think we should find out 'Anonymous Coward's IP addy and ban him from here?
In Soviet Russia we imagen a beowulf cluster of these...
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf imagines a cluster of YOU!
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I agree, 1$ per user may not sound like much...
until you think about it...
Reminds of an old proverb "I am not a selfish man, I only want $.05 from every man in america."
[sarcasm] Cause PayPal is teh uber! [/sarcasm]
1. Dude on bike 2. ?????? 3. Profit!!! 4. plea for money 5. ??????? 7. EFF and FSF Budget increases 30 fold!
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
For ever user of GNU/Linux? I don't think RMS has that kind of money.
..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
Or charge double and donate half ;)
I guess they weren't kidding when they said not free as in beer.
Vote for Pedro
Maybe the FSF could get funds by having everyone who uses one of their products give them a dollar.
Oh, wait...