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5th Anniversary of Open Source
Augustus De Morgan writes "Five years ago today a brainstorming session in Palo Alto led to the adoption and promotion of the "open source" label. (You can find references to the label much earlier, however.) For some, it was a dark divergence from the free software movement; for others, the beginning of the adoption of key software principles into mainstream. Here's a growing set of resources and stories about the history of free and open source software, and a lament about the decline of altruism in the open source community."
That we should eat a piece of paper with the recipe for a cake written on it?
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
Today is also the five year anniversary of the peak of the AOL stock price. Coincidence? I think not.
5 -- Number of companies in the entire world that have actually profitted off of "selling" software at no cost
4 -- Number of companies other than Microsoft that are still buying ads on Slashdot
3 -- Average ratio of troll to non-troll posts for the average Slashdotter
2 -- Number of projects on SourceForge that actually compile
1 -- Number of *BSD projects that are still alive. It's called Mac OS X.
Don't forget *nix either!
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Five years ago today a brainstorming session in Palo Alto led to the adoption and promotion of the "open source" label.
And thus began the constant complaint stream against Microsoft called "Slashdot"
Work sucked, until it became unemployment, when it became slightly more tolerable. -Tet
That doesn't make any sense, *BSD has been dying for far longer than 5 years!
Trolling is a art,
Not only did you fail to read the article, you didn't even read past the title!
They that quote Benjamin Franklin on liberty and safety deserve neither.
Katz? Is that you?
Yes, too bad there aren't bigger names doing something with open source.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
> ...a lament about the decline of altruism in the
> open source community.
Don't worry. Some of us still aren't making any money from it.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
I'm a big fan of altruism, too. As long as people keep writing software for free, and I get to use it for free, I love (other people's) altruism.
I wear Open Source Clothes, but they have no zippers or buttons. Just frog-type fasteners because the people that make the OSC believe that's the "best" fastener.
Of course I have access to needles, thread, a copper smelter, and various machine tools which give me the wonderful freedom to spend days fabricating a zipper for my Open Source jeans. I also make contributions to the Open Source Zipper project which has promised that they will have enough funds to purchase a zipper-matic manufacturing system in a few years.
Nevermind the fact that we don't drive the kids to soccer practice or eat out anymore. The time we spend cutting patterns has made us a stronger family even if my youngest boy has declared "Dad you're an idiot, I hate you, and the first thing I do when I leave home is shop at the Gap".
I wouldn't be caught dead at the Gap. Those families go there "enjoying" themselves and "saving time". If only they knew what slaves they are. I'd say more, but there's weaving to attend to, and I have to hit my daughter with the strap to make her do it because she can be so insolent at times.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?