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Inside the Open Source Lab

Posted by timothy on from the their-only-begotten-oc48s dept.

FreeFooOpenFighter writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. They currently provide hosting for an impressive list of projects including, among many others, the Mozilla Foundation, Debian GNU/Linux, and Gentoo Linux. According to the informative article, they plan to continue to donate hosting with their two OC48s to FOSS projects meeting their criteria."

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  1. On behalf of the Rest of the World by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful


    here are four (4) words that are never said enough to all the people involved in FOSS, they are free and no licence is required to say them:

    Thank You Very Much

    best wishes
    The Rest Of the World(TM)

    1. Re:On behalf of the Rest of the World by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      On the same note, there are three words not said enough to Microsoft and its minions.

      To borrow from Dick Cheney,

      Go fuck yourself!

      Cheers, mate!

  2. Re:Being ontopic.. by marineam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know where you got this idea from. I think the problem is that people who haven't heard much about the OSL just can't quite figgure what the OSL is here to do. There are two main goals, contract work for developing open source software (OSU's Maintain for exampe) and hosting for large projects (Gentoo Linux for example). If you are looking for a group to teach people about Linux, check out the OSLUG http://lug.oregonstate.edu/ if you have not already which is a student driven organization and is very open to the public.

  3. Re:The OSL is a joke by kveton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, the OSL is not a running joke around OSU. We're a fantastic team that is helping moving open source forward at the University and in the world.

    Talk with our students, talk with all of our customers, talk with Mozilla, Gentoo, Debian, KernelTrap and ask them how much we suck. Lemme know how that goes for you.

    The running joke is anonymous cowards that don't have the backbone to stick behind what they say.