__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 15 March 2007 16:28 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Giving Back [to Linux]
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| My contribution to Vector Linux is quite small even when compared to
>>| some of the other volunteer packagers. It?s minuscule compared to
>>| the core developers. The point is that the strength of the Open
>>| Source community is that lots of people give back and contribute
>>| what they can. Lots of little contributions make a huge impact.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/post_3.html
>>
>> [H]omer, for example, builds RPMs for Fedora. And look what we have as a
>> result:
>>
>> Four good reasons to switch to RHEL 5
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Sometimes you don't want the hassle of the big upgrade. For example,
>>| there is no good reason to "upgrade" Windows to Vista. On the other
>>| hand, there are upgrades like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL) that
>>| give you some darn good reasons to make the jump.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6991009676.html
>
> I would suggest that the [News] postings provide a useful service into
> the Community, too. In fact, I suspect that if you were to google all
> the digests, you'd have more linux-related news URLs than any amount of
> manual googling would bring. I have noticed though that some of the
> older references seem to disappear in the end. Perhaps we should be
> saving whole articles somewhere?
If the URL merely changes, then doing a Web search with the title/snippet
should bring up a mirror/identical article. Some time ago OpenAddict moved
from one CMS to another and many URLs broke. I sent an E-mail to the
Webmaster and this will be corrected, but I agree that we can't rely on the
Internet Archive (Wayback Time Machine) and search engines cache. One option
is to save every page before I post it (CTRL+S+ENTER), but it doesn't make
the previous links live. It also doesn't make it public. It does, on the
other hand, allow me to grep back to life any article which I post here.
Those who volunteered in Groklaw and Slashdot did a huge favour to society,
IMHO. The deposition tapes, for example, were immortalised by a Groklawian
who chose to remain anonymous.
Maybe one day we'll have 'monopoly deniers' (now they have 'climate deniers',
with the negative connotation), so all this evidence is very important. It
will help write history properly, going past the scope of Gates' 'Museum of
Computing' and charitable work (READ: investment).
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