To Whom Should I Donate? 299
jasonmanley writes "I currently use DesktopBSD. The other day I gave some thought to donating money to the project, but then I got to thinking — to whom would I donate the money? DesktopBSD benefits from FreeBSD and KDE among other projects. What about software with a smaller focus, such as OpenSSH? In fact, there are heaps of other projects' software embedded in FOSS packages, and I would like to know who the community thinks should get the donations."
Cowboyneal (Score:5, Funny)
Making things complicated. (Score:5, Funny)
Easy answer! (Score:5, Funny)
I'll make that complicated decision for you...honest!
Re:The little guys (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Making things complicated. (Score:5, Funny)
There is a 1 in 20 jillion chance of them making significant improvements to their operating system, software, and business practices resulting in a decent, problem free [or much reduced] computing system.
The odds of this happening are excruciatingly small, just like a lottery. The different thing about it is, if you 'hit', it greatly improves the computing experience of most of the computing world [so it's like everyone wins].
This post can be modded: flamebait, insightful, dopey, idiotic, and/or funny. Any other modding is expressly forbidden.
Me. (Score:5, Funny)
I happen to be one of those unfortunate souls.
Please, give generously.
Re:Easy answer! (Score:5, Funny)
That's what Bill Gates was thinking when he came out with Windows Me.
Re:The little guys (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Easy answer! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Easy answer! (Score:3, Funny)
Actually... yeah.
Yep. Works for me.
Re:Take a Look Around (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Easy answer! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Me! (Score:2, Funny)
> print hello+comma+space+world
This is performance killer. You should instead write:
print "%s%s%s%s" % (hello, comma, space, world)
Re:Making things complicated. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Easy answer! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Take a Look Around (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not so sure. Consensus around here seems to be that Vista is a disaster, after all.
Re:Easy answer! (Score:3, Funny)
I hear SCO have fallen on hard times (Score:3, Funny)
enterprisey++ (Score:1, Funny)
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