Design Patterns in Mozilla Contest

Heikki Toivonen writes " The "Design Patterns in Mozilla" contest is now underway. The goal is to find and document as many design patterns as possible in the Mozilla source, with the chance to win an autographed copy of "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Gamma et. al. and gift certificates to Amazon.com. Visit the contest rules page to learn about the details, regarding the two phases of the contest, the submission rules, the source you need to use, and the prizes. "

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/.'ers Make up your mind!!!!!

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Lets all step back 50 feet and see what is happening at /. the great Open Source/Free Software forum.

We gets endless complaints about stuff not being open source, not being free, companies that gets patents on software, proprietary (sp?) software, etc. (Crowd screams) "Give me the source, I need the source code".

Netscape sucks, it crashes, Mozilla will never be out, M$ has won the browser war, blah blah blah.. (Crowd Sreams)"I want a standards complant browser that is better than IE"

I could go on but I won't, i assume you get the point. This is an opportunity to get into the source that everbody must have according to the posts before. Ya it might be dirty work, coding is not glamourous it is work and sometime it is tedious. So instead of being a bunch of hypocryts (sp?) either SHUT UP about wanting stuff to be open source, or take the advantage of an opportunity to further a software project that can make a difference.

Come on people, decide which side of the fence you sit on. You want the source so you can help, OR you can't be bothered to actually help nor do you plan on it.

When you write a line of code for teh kernal you are doing someone work.. When you write a line of code for apache you are doing someones work.. When you help with Mozilla youare doing someones work..

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