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Rating System for Open Source Software

Posted by timothy on from the smartly-smartly dept.

prostoalex writes "Carnegie Mellon University, Intel and SpikeSource are launching a rating system for open source software, New York Times says. OpenBRR 'is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software. It is intended to enable the entire community (enterprise adopters and developers) to rate software in an open and standardized way.'"

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  1. Oh No! by AAeyers · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could be hurtful! Everyone should be a winner!

    Think of the children!

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  2. About freakin' time. by generic-man · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you execute a specific elisp file at a key time, emacs displays a very graphic mini-game involving Richard Stallman. As a responsible parent, I want to make sure that this sort of thing isn't seen by my children when I'm not watching them.

    I applaud this rating system and wish it well.

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    1. Re:About freakin' time. by Infernal+Device · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you execute a specific elisp file at a key time, emacs displays a very graphic mini-game involving Richard Stallman.

      I would pay money not to see that.

      My eyes! The burning!

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  3. Moderating.... by fembots · · Score: 2, Funny

    The rating system has 11 categories, including Normal, Offtopic, Flamebait, Troll, Redundant, Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Funny, Overrated and Underrated.

    Each category is to be rated -1 to 5.

    There will also be filtering tools so a potential corporate user can specify its most important considerations.

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    1. Re:Moderating.... by 50m31sl4sh. · · Score: 1, Funny

      In other news, SCO OpenServer 6 was recently rated by new system.
      It is the first software ever that has been assigned ratings Flamebait, Troll and Offtopic.

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  4. 1 to 10 by b17bmbr · · Score: 3, Funny

    1: absolutely horshit. stuff i wouldn't use if paid a million dolars.

    10: barely usable, requires constant tweaking, stuck at version 0.9.3, crashes occasionally, and requires three new libraries each upgrade which break other applications.

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