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Unsung Heroes of Open Source
Yosef writes "Jon Udell uses his experience from using and hacking the free software BitPim to say that developers of such less-known projects are the true heroes of open source: 'For solving a host of vexing problems with quiet competence, and for doing it in ways that invite others to stand on their shoulders, I salute them all.'"
What Jon Udell calls a "List of Unsung Heroes", Microsoft calls a "Hit List".
I'm a big tall mofo.
I know a lot more open source developers than the average person. (although perhaps not more than the average Slashdotter), and I can't figure out how there can be enough of them to keep all these projects floating.
For example, how many people were neccesary to put together libsdl-sound1.2 which is one of tens of thousands of packages hiding in the Debian repository, which is just a small piece of all open source projects.
Where are all these open source developers hiding? Is this what my bus driver does when they aren't at work?
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
You've never seen MY code.
My code is like my handwriting, I know what it's about at the time, but no one, myself included, can decipher it if it comes up again.
For example, how many commercial software development jobs come with benefits like this ?
My personal hero in the Open Source community is Bill Gates. He has done so much to spur to growth of good software and open source its hard not to pay some tribute to this man.
Can I use my not-so-Mad Rhyming Skillz to translate some documentation for Ubuntu? I had a really really old soundblaster-compatible card that needed some hocus pocus ALSA config stuff that took me a week to figure out with the help of google and people posting oodles of info. (ok, hocus pocus to me, but I figure the rest of you think it's damn simple)
So I was in despair
In need of a good driver
Swimming 'round Google
like a clueless scuba diver
I'm a cheap bastard
and I ain't droppin' thirty
On an audigy that's bork
so now I've got my hands dirty
No AlsaConfig
dot-deb for Warty
So I aliened from mandrake
And started to party
The configs, still shot
Victory untasted
So I got on the web
I cut and I pasted
Now it's all runnin,
though far from perfection
I gots kickin' bass
for my OGG collection.
Mad props to da G's --
coders of da OSS Nation
and shout outs to all y'all
Who write good documentation.
To quote Axl Rose at the end of "Garden of Eden" I think..."Awwwright, that SUCKED!"
SEPY is a flash debugger. Why would anyone on /. want to encourage or faclitate the creation of flash content?
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
HAND.
SEPY is a flash debugger. Why would anyone on /. want to encourage or faclitate the creation of flash content?
Sure. Flash is only used to annoy the fuck out of you - and the exclusive purpose of VCRs is to flagrantly infringe on media producers' precious IP. Hypocrites.
Get off you VT100 and come join us in this century.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.