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SCO Vs. IBM Leaks Exposed
Xenographic writes "Remember all the fuss about SCO subpoenaing PJ of Groklaw, where they allege that she's funded by IBM because she once got a publicly available document from a volunteer at the courthouse a little before it hit the Court's website? That's nothing. Groklaw has evidence that other materials have been leaked in this case — but they weren't leaked to Groklaw, and they weren't leaked by IBM. Information about the sealed materials in question made its way to Maureen O'Gara, who wrote a story based on inside information, displaying a positively uncanny insight into what SCO was planning, including far more than just the sealed document a SCO lawyer read out loud in open court. Interestingly, several witnesses report that Maureen O'Gara did not even attend that hearing, leaving us to speculate about her source."
Look at sourceforge.net's 140,000 plus projects, all of which are maintained under some sort of open source license. Very few of them get funding of any sort to exist. Clearly there are lots of people out there who *do* spend much of their free time voluntarily putting stuff out into the community. Some do it to scratch an itch and others for fun. But just because *you* wouldn't be able to find the time to do this as a volunteer doesn't mean that it's impossible for others to do so.
Easy to fix.
Require potential moderators to take a pop quiz on TFA before they are allowed to moderate on it.
The quiz would determine if they had really read TFA or not. Fail the quiz, no moderation powers, pass the quiz and you can moderate. Sure would cut down on a lot of stupid shit.