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Funding Open Source?
An Open Investment...
Luke asks: "Open Investment is a concept whereby Open Source principles are applied to making money. Open Investment is inspired by recent articles and diary entries, on Advogato, lamenting the lack of funding of strategic projects. Eric S. Raymond's 'Cathedral and the Bazaar' papers describe how Open Source projects get off the ground by starting as a programmer's itch turning into something useful to other people.
What if there are strategically important projects that just take too long to ever get off the ground, such as
an Open Exchange replacement? With the Economist's recent news on how users expect more and more from IT, how is the Open Source community ever going to keep up? Who is going to pay for it?
The principle behind the Open Investment Initiative is to
encourage the Open Source Community to take matters into
their own hands, by getting smarter about money. If that
happens to mean that programmers become part-time wheeler-dealers and happen to _like_ it better than programming, then good for them! Open source developers (or anybody else for that matter) could even band together to form investment syndicates, with the aim of gaining financial independence.
For the most part, the expectation is that several smart people willing to learn about investing, negotiating and making money get together, and succeed where they would be unable or unwilling to do anything on their own.
Who wants to give it a shot?"
...for a Common Situation?
Yaztromo asks: "I'm the project administrator and lead developer for an Open Source project that brings PalmOS handheld synchronization to Java-enabled platforms, called the jSyncManager.
I started the project back in 1997 for personal use (the full history of the project as available here), and in November of 2002 decided to make it Open Source under the GPL (although parts have since had their license changed to the LGPL to make using our API (especially our plugin APIs) easier for all kinds of developers). After about 8 months we're getting pretty close to final releases of the project for public consumption.
So I've been at this for 8 months, with some success, but am getting to the point where two things concern me:
- How do I best market my project?
- How can I raise funds to help continue the project?
How have you raised your Open Source projects public profile (particularly if it isn't something that is of general use), and how have you gone about obtaining funding to help take care of those annoying little costs that creep up along the way?"
About ten minute passed and he entered the room to find the two girls
kneeling in the middle of the bed. Ramona knows him well enough to
know he wouldn't come to them, but would sit in the rich burgundy
leather chair at the foot of their massive king-sized bed.
Ramona leaned closer to Michelle and gently they kissed. The two began
to suckle each other's tongues and moaned repeatedly in unison. Ramona
pulled her lips from Michelle's mouth and looked at her Daddy, "Please
come play with us", she whispered. She reached her hand out and again
asked him to come to them. Michelle then did the same and the two slut
girls kneeled up on the bed begging him to join them.
He rose from the chair and began to remove his shirt and slacks. They
watched as he shed the clothing allowing them to view his muscular
tanned body. He stood there for a moment letting them look upon his
form, their eyes locking on the thickness of his shaft that would
surely bring screams of pleasure to them both.
Ramona began kissing his chest as he reached out and grabbed Michelle
by the back of her hair and pulled her into him kissing her hard, long
and deep. Ramona slid her tongue down his six-pack abs and gripped his
cock in her fist as she slowly began to pump it in her small hand.
He growled to Michelle, "Finger my whore, she loves it and will drip
her nasty whore juices all over your hand so you can feed it to her."
Ramona, having heard his command for her friend spread her thighs and
greedily pushed her ass up into the air so her pussy hole could be
finger fucked.
Daddy reached his hand underneath Ramona and began to torture her
nipple with his hard tight pinching fingers. He loved to make them
almost bleed from the pressure of his pinches, but not as much as he
loved to hear her scream from it. Ramona gasped in pain and pleasure
as he tortured her hard nipple with her friends fingers pumping in and
out of her hole. God how she loved this man and only wanted to please
him, but would she ever be enough? With that thought in the midst of
the pain and pleasure she lowered her head more so she could lick the
skin of his sac. She adored the feel of his balls in her mouth as she
sucked them in and rolled them around, her hand still pumping his
cock.
He wanted more than that, so he released her nipple and pulled his
mouth away from Michelle's and moved to the top of the bed to lie on
his back with his head resting on the pillows. Ramona crawled up
between his legs spreading them further apart as she placed her hands
on his thighs. She lowered her mouth between his legs and held the
base of his cock in her hand as she slid her tongue along the entrance
to his ass. She loved to tongue fuck her Daddy's ass while jerking him
off. She needed to do this for some sense of lost intimacy she would
get from time to time. Just as she pushed the tip of her tongue into
his ass he groaned loudly and pulled his legs up so she could fuck
deeper into his puckered brown hole. Michelle not wanting to be left
out moved behind Ramona and began to lap at her smooth full pussy
lips. Ramona pushing back onto Michelle's face began to tremble with
such excitement that when her Daddy pulled her away from his ass and
slapped her hard across the face it was the only thing that kept her
from cumming.
"Don't you dare fucking cum without permission you cunt bitch", he
shouted.
Tears welled in Ramona's eyes and she lowered them away from him and
moved to the other side of the bed whispering, "I didn't cum Daddy."
He looked at her knowing she would have cum had he not stopped her and
now she wouldn't be allowed to cum for some time tonight, if at all.
He reached out for Michelle and pulled her too him kissing her and
tasting his whore's pussy in her mouth. He looked over at Ramona as
his tongued darted in and out of Michelle's mouth knowing he hurt his
baby girl
Without hesitation, David starts to suck his Masters cock again, this
huge piece
of manhood.
"That's right, Boy, suck harder on your Master's cock!"
David is doing his very best to please Peter. He tries to relax his
throat
muscles as much as possible, sucking his Master's big cock, as far as
he can
get. David is feeling Peter's crotch hairs on his nose.
Without realizing, he had taken it all!
"Yes, Boy, suck it!"
Peter is feeling the urge. This boy will take his load!
This feels so great!
"Mmm... Boy, time to feet you my cum, do not spoil it, leave it in
your mouth".
Peter takes his cock out of the boy's throat, just leaving the head
inside on
David's tongue.
Peter feels he has to cum. Cumming in His Boys mouth!
His cock grows bigger and bigger.
It feels great to him.
"Agggggghhh.... Take it!"
His first spurt of cum is hitting David's uvula.
David is working hard not to retch, not to swallow. He wants all the
cum he can
get in his mouth as his Master ordered.
More spurts are loaded into David's mouth. It is to much, some is
dripping from
the corners of his mouth.
"Mmm... Good Sucking Boy!"
David is feeling so proud on the compliment!
His mouth is still on his Master's cockhead.
Peter is taking his very sensitive cockhead out of David's mouth.
David is not
willing to let it go. His mouth is still full of hot cum.
David's own cock is rock hard poking up to his belly button, dripping
pre-cum.
Sorta like someone adopting a fake persona based on a racial stereotype so that they can insult multiple groups of people all at once, Dr Fooling You?
You ain't foolin' shit, son.
Yeah, but they usually do it in Visual Basic, so inevitably nobody ever uses it.
What the hell happened to Jane? Did that two timing bastard Joe leave her for a younger and smarter open source coder?
tarquin_fim_bim (649994) wrote: Yeah, but they usually do it in Visual Basic, so inevitably nobody ever uses it.
Wrong.
There are an endless supply of other kiddies who don't know any better.
For example, Did you know you can use PERL now to filter packets arriving from the Linux kernel? You don't think Microsoft is going to leave Linux in the _dust_ in a few years because of this b.s./lack-of-leadership/vision? Bill Gates is right to look at Linux as a passing competitive threat (like OS/2 3.x/Warp, GeOS and JavaOS) --not a long-term threat.
fund your projects by engaging in gay/male prostitution.
I'd pay a quarter to fist-fuck Larry Wall, myself!
Nice try, but you're far too eloquent to be a windows slave, you don't fool me.
Someone should shoot that girl's parents - as far as names go that one is worse than 'Astral'.
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