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What Does It Mean To Be an Open Source Author?
lolococo writes to tell us that Laurent Cohen, founder of the open source project JPPF (Java Parallel Processing Framework), has decided to share what life is like for an open source contributor in general and little bit about what that means. "There came a time of coding, releasing, coding, releasing. The project started gathering some momentum, as a small community of users started to use it, but why was it not working in this case, or why did it not have this feature, or how could I do this, etc...? You get the drift. Oh my, now I had to start interacting with other folks! What was I to do? That started a (thankfully short) period of intense existential self-questioning. What was the purpose of this project? Why did I actually open-source it? I resolved this by deciding unilaterally that it would be a free contribution, for whomever would be interested enough to look into it. I also decided that it was my personal responsibility to support these brave folks into using the project, and to make it, as much as possible, a happy experience for them."
No rent money *THIS* month either!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Groupies. Lots of groupies. In that way it's a lot like Islam. There WILL be 72 virgins around you. Unlike Islam, they will be no guarantees that they are female.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
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Troll or not, there something about this perfect example of a jock being foiled by technology that deserves a +5, Funny.
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
..that I met over the weekend, it means you're a "weirdo who ate too much paste as a kid."
I don't think that convinced the other guy to install a closed-source alternative to OpenOffice.