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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!
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
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.
> ...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.
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