linuxinsider.com — Are you driving progress forward? Are you presenting papers educating your peers at open source events? Can you write papers explaining what you do and how to use your code? Do you participate in a wide variety of activities that enhance open source? Those things are all important to consider and something the Linux Foundation looks at closely,
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wildfireJul 26, 2007
Let me guess: don't bath, become a hermit, collect scifi figurines (dolls), bash Microsoft, yell at rats, and drink tons of Andy Rooney Crazy Juice.(Anyone have a clip/link of the last reference from Family Guy?)
mrkcJul 27, 2007
The story on Digg was pulled by Digg after 1310 diggs. If you try to do a search for the story you will not find it. Here is the link. There are several anti MS comments. Odd how is suddenly disappeared. <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Microsoft_DIGG_New_Partnership_Launches_MS_Press_Release">http://digg.com/tech_news/Microsoft_DIGG_New_Partnership_Launches_MS_Press_Release</a>
daftmanJul 27, 2007
Window-based programmer? There are more java jobs than .NET jobs. More companies are moving to cross-platform development. This means java, rails, python, GTK. Windows-based is just a fad that's slow dying.
gmorganJul 27, 2007
Java's main focus has been in the server room and on the mobile platform. Of course they are making serious efforts on the desktop front and Swing is finally good enough to be usable.
anarchistukJul 27, 2007
I dugg this right after I dugg "So you want to get laid?"
init100Jul 28, 2007
You have obviously not met the "Vista is the best thing since sliced bread" crowd.
init100Jul 28, 2007
"I don't think that I would have the time to contribute open source. My only contribution would be to use linux and other open source software and report bugs..."Well, reporting bugs is also a way of contributing. It doesn't have to be source code to count.