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Sought: 500 Great Lines Of Open Source Code

Posted by timothy on from the perl-not-allowed dept.

The editorial staff of the Open Source Annual 2005 writes "Be part of the Open Source Annual 2005 and enter our hacker contest for the best 500-line open source program. The best program will be printed in next year's issue of the book. Following lasts year's huge success with our Open Source Annual, a mostly German reader concerned with the various aspects of open source, we are currently busy compiling the second edition of the annual which will be released next March for the CeBIT 2005 in Hannover. Aside from articles on subjects like economics, law and open innovation, to name but a few, we plan to print the source code of an open source software program." (Read more below.) "Any OSS program whose source code is no more than 500 lines of 80 characters may enter the competition. Anything that tickles your fancy, from online pong games to 'OpenGotchis,' may be submitted until October 15 to winner@ig.cs.tu-berlin.de. Make sure to document your code within the file submitted. You may also want to add a couple of explanatory lines should you so wish.

An online vote will be held this December on our website Think-Ahead.org. Not only will the winner's code make it into the book but he shall also receive a copy of both the 2004 and the 2005 annual."

8 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you dolt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    moderators are overrated

  2. Re:Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just because it was *supposed to be* funny, doesn't mean it was. Face it, that comment was overrated at 1.

  3. Re:Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Keep going, still overrated at 0.

  4. Re:Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you do by nharmon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't see you posting with your real alias, scumbag.

  5. Re:Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have plenty of karma to burn to. So bring it on FUCK FACE! There you gotta start from two. BRING IT ON!

  6. Re:Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And it'll be meta-moderated into oblivion anyway. There is something to say about never/rarely using meta-moderation for negative shit.

  7. Re:Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sounds like a challenge to me, boss.

  8. Re:Overrated? That was supposed to be funny you do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    trouble is...
    It could be anyone baiting you on!

    This is a different AC, but how would you know?