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Perens Launches 'OpenSourceParking'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-bragging-rights dept.

miller60 writes "Open source evangelist Bruce Perens has launched OpenSourceParking, a service designed to boost domain parking on open source software. The project is a response to a large gain by Microsoft in the April Netcraft survey, with Windows' share jumping 5 percent as domain registrar Go Daddy moved 4.5 million parked domains from Linux to Windows Server 2003. To regain that share, Perens is calling on open source users to park undeveloped domains at OpenSourceParking, with the advertising revenue being used to fund political advocacy efforts on behalf of open source software. Parking-for-profit has grown into a significant business in recent years. Despite ambivalence over the value of these sites, Perens appears to believe it merits a focused effort for the open source community."

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  1. Re:Let's hope it's as successful as his UserLinux by DA-MAN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously - is this worth Bruce wasting his time on?

    What else is he going to do? He took too long with UserLinux and Ubuntu ate his lunch. At this point the only thing he has is time . . .

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  2. slashdotsucks.com by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is available again...

  3. Office Space, anyone? by 10Ghz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For some reason I'm reminded by this piece of dialogue from Office Space:

    Tom Smykowski: It's a "Jump to Conclusions mat". You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
    Michael Bolton: That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
    Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea.

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  4. Re:Don't. by carpe_noctem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hear, hear.

    This post is very insightful, and I would mod you up had I not already foolishly wasted my meta-mod points on amusing troll posts. We should fix the system rather than adding more noise to it.

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