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Credit and Free Software

Posted by michael on Saturday May 3, 2003 @05:20AM 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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My dick itches. by Bitter+Old+Man · 2003-05-03 05:24 · Score: 2, Offtopic

Immersing it in vinegar is not helping, either.
You are a homosexual by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-03 05:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You are, aren't you! Going down on dirty Gnu hippies, or at least constantly thinking about it. You make me sick.
Reiserfs by msh104 · 2003-05-03 05:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I think reiserfs is great.. realy, i'am using nothing else... it saves so much time on diskchecking after a crash. and it does the entire journal thingy MUCH better than ext3
Re: IN DEMOCRATIQ IRAQ by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-03 05:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

REISER is GNU!!!
Will SCO sue named individuals? by PB8 · 2003-05-03 09:42 · 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.