A question that came up this weekend…

Posted on December 10, 2007, 10:04 pm, by EricaJoy, under Open Source, random.

So I was chatting with an open source dev this weekend after squashing bugs and the following question came up: What Open Source project would you work on if you didn’t have a job and money wasn’t a factor (assume you’re rich with nothing to do)? Why that particular project? So readers, what say ye?

No related posts.

Comment (RSS)  |  Trackback
  • http://bkaeg.org/blog AG

    Well, you can _actually_ get paid to write FOSS applications. Not a violation of the GPL (but you already knew that) :)

    If I were a code slinger the following projects would be on my short list: amaroK, Slackware, Debian, CUPS

    amaroK is an excellent juke box and podcatcher, use it exclusively (better than iTunes, yeah I said it.)

    Slackware – My workstation distribution since day zero (well since 96′)

    Slackbuilds – Great repository of slackware package install scripts that work very well.

    Debian – The distribution which spawned many other commercial Linux distros (specifically would work on package manager).

    CUPS – It still needs a great deal of work.. Since Apple acquired I dunno what the future holds..

    As an aside – contributing code is just one of the many ways to support a FOSS project. Documentation, monetary contributions, evangelising (read Netcasting, etc), submitting bugs.

«
»