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Talk To a Successful Free Software Project Leader
Nagios (formerly known as NetSaint) is a GPL network monitor software project that's been getting a lot of buzz lately among *Nix sysadmins. Nagios is unquestionably a free software success story even if it's not as high profile as Apache or Linux. Ethan Galstad leads the project. Perhaps he can tell us why Nagios has done so well, so that other free software projects can enjoy similar success. Usual Slashdot interview rules; post your question below, we'll email 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Ethan about 24 hours after this post appears, and publish his answers soon after he gets them back to us.
And why haven't you called me?
And first post?
Thie headline: Talk To a Successful Free Software Project Leader made me wonder? What kind of metrics exist to analyze a free software project and determine whether or not it is successful? Certianly not sales, because the software is free..
I've thought of a couple of possibilities but, like everything, they have pros and cons:
First, we could measure the number of downloads or, perhaps more accurately, the amount of bandwith spent on downloads. This would be kind of a negative performance metric, in that more mney spent (and therefore lost, since no money is being paid for the software) is actually a metric of success! That boggles the mind in that the more money a free software project loses, the more successful it is! I don't think that will take off as a widely accepted metric however, fo obvious reasons. I also don't think it works, since many people may download open source software, fail to get it to perform properly, and simply never use it again, so the metrics would suffer from variance.
So, my second idea is to create a small piece of open source code that could be embedded in all open source software, perhaps as a part of GPL requirements - sort of an EULA, if you will. This code could then connect to a master server owned by a corporation who's job it is to track all OSS usage and report monthly metrics. Perhaps it should be a government organization, since a company might not want to take such a thankless task.
for me to POOP on.
*bows*---"Thanks Ill be here all Week"
You know you want it!!
So just shut up grab your ankles and beg me to fuck your hot dirty ass!!!
You know you want it!!!
My biggest challenge was to go outside. But I couldn't handle it. All these ladies passing by, I creamed my pants. Not to mention all the bullies laughing at my pasty pale face. I chickened out, I had to run inside crying like a little girl. Watch out fellow nerds! The outside world is nothing like you've seen in StarTrek!
Do you find it disturbing that so many slashdotters like anal?
What would you propose to solve this?
thank you in advance for your honest response!
The GNU/Hurd team have made a MAJOR MILE STONE in their 12 year old operating system. They have managed to get ALPHA support for EGA graphics! With this, you can stop using 80x25 text mode and step into color, 640x350x16! At long last, after 12 years of hard work, they finally reverse engineered the EGA protacal, allowing you to have a COLOR 120x40 console and serial mouse support for emacs. VGA support is currently being researched, but you can now download the EGAd server
But remember, its alpha, so if you get a BSOD (a black screen of death, we havent figured out how to do blue yet) then send an email to hurd-ega-support@gnu.org with the report from the emacs-bug-reporter tool.
I nominate "ls", "cat" and "date".
I had what I thought was a rash on my buttocks.
I have since developed scabs an pusy sores
Is it time I go to a doctor or should I try a holistic approch to my problem?
when your going to do something interesting,
I meen realy macOS and Windows does all the stuff I want and doesn't have all the lamers to go with it including you
So go out get laid jump off a cliff and we'll all be fine just tell us when you do so we can miss you.
This is FUNNY! Just goes to show you, pasty faced GPL (opps) GNU/GPL nut-cases 1.) make no money 2.) do not drive nice cars 3.) have no life AND 4.) NO SENSE OF HUMOR!!!!!!