Oops, submitted too fast ShakaZ Ok squee I think you are not nearly close to a human mind as a remote control. Do you agree or are you just too stupid to understand this concept. Come on tell me all. George You only repeat what others have said to you. If they spell correctly, you spell correctly. If they can't spell, you repeat their mistakes. ShakaZ You didn't understand anything I told you, did you. George What do you want to talk about? ShakaZ About a trip to the moon or about your dog, whaever you prefer! George I like it fresh. ShakaZ What music band do you like? George What is music? ShakaZ Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. George Fascinating. How much music theory do you know? ShakaZ A lot, how about you? George I'm fine too.
ShakaZ Ok squee I think you are not nearly close to a human mind as a remote control. Do you agree or are you just too stupid to understand this concept. Come on tell me all.
George You only repeat what others have said to you. If they spell correctly, you spell correctly. If they can't spell, you repeat their mistakes.
ShakaZ You didn't understand anything I told you, did you.
George What do you want to talk about?
ShakaZ About a trip to the moon or about your dog, whaever you prefer!
George I like it fresh.
ShakaZ What music band do you like?
George What is music?
ShakaZ Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence.
George Fascinating. How much music theory do you know?
ShakaZ A lot, how about you?
George I'm fine too.
About 1,000 developers contribute changes to Linux on a regular basis, Morton said. Of those 1,000 developers, about 100 are paid to work on Linux by their employers. And those 100 have contributed about 37,000 of the last 38,000 changes made to the operating system.
So that 2004 study suggests that, eventhough the percentage of paid developers is even lower than the previous numbers i mentionned, 97% of the OSS effort is actually being paid for... interesting no?
Couldn't find the link but here are some interesting facts :
The Boston Consulting Group/OSDN Hacker Survey (release 0.73, July 21, 2002) made some interesting observations by sampling SourceForge users. The top motivations given for participating in OSS/FS development were as follows:
1. intellectually stimulating (44.9%)
2. improves skill (41.3%)
3. work functionality (33.8%)
4. code should be open (33.1%)
5. non-work functionality (29.7%)
6. obligation from use (28.5%)
By examining these motivations, they concluded that open source developers could be divided into four groups (based on their primary motivations for writing OSS/FS software):
1. Believers (19%): believe source code should be open.
2. Learning and Fun (29%): for non-work needs and intellectual stimulation.
3. Hobbyists (27%): need the code for a non-work reason.
4. Professionals (25%): for work needs and professional status.
The same survey showed only 30 to 35% of the developpers were paid by their company to work on OSS projects... the study is already 3 years old but my previous statement might have been overestimated thoug i'm quite sure i read it somewhere...
70 to 80% of OpenSource developpers are in fact paid to do so by the company they work for... that's according to an article i read yesterday (sorry, no time to retrieve the link but it should't be too hard to find it)
So the issue would only be for a small percentage of the OSS developpers... Maybe the money should go only to those that have no alternate funding... Sure there's potential for abuse in such a system, but i'm not aware of any system that isn't prone to being abused.
Money isn't (shouldn't be) the main incentive to write OSS programs & i don't think giving a bonus to those who already have a pay would really make any difference.
I agree that NoScript is a must have and would by default block this tracking method...
However let's imagine it's integrated in a website for which you have enabled javascripts, then you're f@cked... and from my personal experience it looks like everyday there are more sites which you can't use correctly whith scripts disabled
Zaïre doesn't exist !!!
Since 1997 & the fall of dictator Mobutu, the new dictator Kabila restored the original name of the country to Democratic Republic of Congo... as for now the're are in fact in the middle of their first more or less real democratic elections since 1960.
I'm still surprised to see a lot of internet sites haven't updated their country databases almost ten years later...
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ShakaZ Ok squee I think you are not nearly close to a human mind as a remote control. Do you agree or are you just too stupid to understand this concept. Come on tell me all.
George You only repeat what others have said to you. If they spell correctly, you spell correctly. If they can't spell, you repeat their mistakes.
ShakaZ You didn't understand anything I told you, did you.
George What do you want to talk about?
ShakaZ About a trip to the moon or about your dog, whaever you prefer!
George I like it fresh.
ShakaZ What music band do you like?
George What is music?
ShakaZ Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence.
George Fascinating. How much music theory do you know?
ShakaZ A lot, how about you?
George I'm fine too.
ShakaZ Ok squee I think you are not nearly close to a human mind as a remote control. Do you agree or are you just too stupid to understand this concept. Come on tell me all. George You only repeat what others have said to you. If they spell correctly, you spell correctly. If they can't spell, you repeat their mistakes. ShakaZ You didn't understand anything I told you, did you. George What do you want to talk about? ShakaZ About a trip to the moon or about your dog, whaever you prefer! George I like it fresh. ShakaZ What music band do you like? George What is music? ShakaZ Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. George Fascinating. How much music theory do you know? ShakaZ A lot, how about you? George I'm fine too.
Here's the answer to your last question (found at http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/26641-1.html) :
About 1,000 developers contribute changes to Linux on a regular basis, Morton said. Of those 1,000 developers, about 100 are paid to work on Linux by their employers. And those 100 have contributed about 37,000 of the last 38,000 changes made to the operating system.
So that 2004 study suggests that, eventhough the percentage of paid developers is even lower than the previous numbers i mentionned, 97% of the OSS effort is actually being paid for... interesting no?
Couldn't find the link but here are some interesting facts : The Boston Consulting Group/OSDN Hacker Survey (release 0.73, July 21, 2002) made some interesting observations by sampling SourceForge users. The top motivations given for participating in OSS/FS development were as follows: 1. intellectually stimulating (44.9%) 2. improves skill (41.3%) 3. work functionality (33.8%) 4. code should be open (33.1%) 5. non-work functionality (29.7%) 6. obligation from use (28.5%) By examining these motivations, they concluded that open source developers could be divided into four groups (based on their primary motivations for writing OSS/FS software): 1. Believers (19%): believe source code should be open. 2. Learning and Fun (29%): for non-work needs and intellectual stimulation. 3. Hobbyists (27%): need the code for a non-work reason. 4. Professionals (25%): for work needs and professional status. The same survey showed only 30 to 35% of the developpers were paid by their company to work on OSS projects... the study is already 3 years old but my previous statement might have been overestimated thoug i'm quite sure i read it somewhere...
70 to 80% of OpenSource developpers are in fact paid to do so by the company they work for... that's according to an article i read yesterday (sorry, no time to retrieve the link but it should't be too hard to find it) So the issue would only be for a small percentage of the OSS developpers... Maybe the money should go only to those that have no alternate funding... Sure there's potential for abuse in such a system, but i'm not aware of any system that isn't prone to being abused. Money isn't (shouldn't be) the main incentive to write OSS programs & i don't think giving a bonus to those who already have a pay would really make any difference.
I agree that NoScript is a must have and would by default block this tracking method... However let's imagine it's integrated in a website for which you have enabled javascripts, then you're f@cked... and from my personal experience it looks like everyday there are more sites which you can't use correctly whith scripts disabled
Zaïre doesn't exist !!! Since 1997 & the fall of dictator Mobutu, the new dictator Kabila restored the original name of the country to Democratic Republic of Congo... as for now the're are in fact in the middle of their first more or less real democratic elections since 1960. I'm still surprised to see a lot of internet sites haven't updated their country databases almost ten years later...