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Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets

Posted by timothy on from the don't-blame-me-I-voted-foss dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF's Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow's Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear's Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work to eliminate bad code, such as the Apache Foundation and FreeBSD. The first cheques were sent out earlier today." Hopefully, they work better than carbon offsets, actually.

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  1. Apache & FreeBSD = bad code? by sopssa · · Score: 5, Funny

    which work to eliminate bad code, such as the Apache Foundation and FreeBSD.

    Wow, that's a quite direct attack.

  2. Not realistic by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't really see how Microsoft can afford this...

  3. Lutherans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a Catholic, let me tell all you greens and bad coders that letting people buy their way out of their sins just gets stuff nailed to your door. But good luck with it anyway.

  4. Re:cyber-indugences by skywolf3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're missing the point. The point is to poke fun at carbon schemes and raise money for free software. It's not to actually offset bad code, just to support good code writing organizations.