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FSF Debuts "Shared Source" Initiative

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the long-overdue-those-hoarders dept.

matty_x points to coverage at NewsForge of the Free Software Foundation's new 'Shared Source' program. Cynics might call this selling out, but it actually makes a lot of sense for the FSF to listen to customers about what they really would like and benefit from, rather than only to developers and freeloading users. Bravo!

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  1. Tired of April 1st on Slashdot? by product+byproduct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Take a break from Slashdot, and do your *income taxes*. That's what I'm doing, and I sure hope that when the IRS employee sees my fat check dated April 1st, he'll think "this gotta be a joke", and trash my submission entirely.

  2. April 1st on Slashdot Always Sucks by MisterFancypants · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a reason why most places only post a single April Fools Day joke -- it isn't because they don't have enough material, it is because "trick" jokes only work in isolation. If everything you say/do/post is a joke, for the entire day, it is nothing but annoying, and any jokes that may have worked well on their own don't work at all because it becomes WAY TOO OBVIOUS when you have them all huddled together.

  3. oh stop it. !! by cutecub · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next you're going to tell me that Wil Wheaton is set to get a recurring role on "Enterprise".

  4. Best April Fool's Joke ... by slagdogg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot was off this year ... surely bested by the daily gaim build ;)

    http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gai m/gaim/src/buddy.c.diff?r1=1.480&r2=1.481

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    (Score:-1, Wrong)