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Credit and Free Software

Posted by michael on from the where-it's-due dept.

Hans Reiser - you're thinking ReiserFS, and you'd be right - has a proposal to slather Free Software with credits for its authors. Good? Bad? This is something the community has generally moved away from, but maybe Reiser has a good point. Newsforge is part of OSDN.

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  1. My dick itches. by Bitter+Old+Man · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Immersing it in vinegar is not helping, either.

  2. Will SCO sue named individuals? by PB8 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Maybe embedding your name in a program isn't so good an idea if it gives SCO or MSFT lawyers an easy target. Maybe rpm or apt-get could be enhanced to have an option to list developer names as it installs or uninstalls software.