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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. Being ontopic.. by MoOsEb0y · · Score: -1, Troll

    While it sucks google's down, I'll still post ontopic.. I go to said school, and I'm not very impressed with the OSL. It's not open to the public, it's not educating anybody about using linux. It's basically a bunch of alumni from the school who wish they were still college students living in their landlord's basement, writing little PHP programs and getting hardware donated to them because they're affiliated with a University.

    1. Re:Being ontopic.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      As a user of OSU's ftp.oregonstate.edu for years I've noticed that access to open source software has actually gotten worse since the OSL was started. Before on campus you could expect over a meg a second from ftp.oregonstate.edu now I count my lucky stars if I get 300K.

      Beyond that the OSUOSL has managed to alienate a large porition of campus with their showboating and self-important ranting

      Is it nice that hosting is donated, sure. Does it help OSU's public image, sure. Does it actually contribute to the academic environment at OSU in any way? No!

      At least football brings in money as far as I can tell all the OSL has done is spent OSU's money so a few Staff members can have a little pet project all their own.

  2. How long before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MS "donates" 500 PCs with windoze 2003 server professional installed, to Oregorn university, the admins who did that get fired and it becomes a friendly affiliate to the msgeek.net????

    BTW: GOOOOOGLE IS DOWN!!!!!!!!!! CAN'T POST EMAIL. ME ASSHOLE I TRUSTED GOOGLE. OMG!!!!

  3. The OSL is a joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Open Source Lab is a running joke around Oregon State. The folks at the OSL think very highly of themselves, and yet haven't produced a single FOSS project in nearly two years.

    Let's see what their hotter-than-shit programmers have done since January:

    * A new layout for osuosl.org, which doesn't exactly count because it's all taken care of by plone. And let's face it, a retarded monkey could install plone.
    * An incremental release as part of the OCKHAM project. The press release states that "the OCKHAM project [is] being developed by the Open Source Lab." So does this mean that Emory, Notre Dame, and Virginia Tech are now part of the OSL?
    * A list of graphical buttons on the OSUOSL home page. Impressive!
    * A blogroll by any other name is still just a blogroll. Yes, PlanetOSL, we're looking at you.

    *crickets chirping*

  4. Re:Google down - Rejected Story by TechnologyX · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want another -1 faggots

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