“How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free
software hacking world? For most of them, there’s no income to be
appraised, there’s no stock market valuation to watch. What value
can you give to these contributors, who work without care of
reward, except maybe all those groupies hanging out at the stage
door of the Sourceforge ftp servers?“Well, I guess you could review their software or something.
Sadly, I suffer from a debilitating illness (which I shall not
mention here) that tragically precludes me from doing actual
research. So, instead, I have decided to evaluate those involved in
our so-called industry in terms of what we all, I think, see it
as.“A battle between good and evil…”
OSDir: To Evil!: Evil of August 2004
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