Information, Freedom, Rights and Duties

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/information-freedom-flame-bait.html

by AndrewDucker • 16 years ago

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I have a little book of things I want to open-source before I die. Some of it is my own stuff that I can't release yet for competitive reasons, others is stuff I want to make money and buy the rights so I can give it away.

It's easy to think of a will and death as something far off and mostly about finances and money, especially for people our age. But who knows how many fast-inverse-square-roots are hidden in the bowels of legacy systems that will never see the light of day? That keeps me up at night.

BearOfNH• 16 years ago

I have a little book of things I want to open-source before I die.

So do I. And I'll be retiring in a few years, if you get my drift.

Where are good places to deposit stuff? Things that may not be worthy of (say) SourceForge? Things that may only interest a handful of people every year? Someplace where they will get cataloged by Google so every few months a single geek can be pleasantly surprised to find somebody else solved part of his problem, and is willing to share?

apotheon2• 16 years ago

[BitBucket](http://bitbucket.org/)

That's my favorite at present.

unwind• 16 years ago

Just because it piqued my curiosity, here:s a CPAN search for Mr Stross' software: <http://search.cpan.org/search?query=stross&mode=all>. Seems to be two packages, from 1998 and 2000.

cstross• 16 years ago

Yep. 2000 is when I switched career track to writing full-time. Unsurprisingly, I haven't been releasing any packages since then (due to not doing any software development these days).

Incidentally, NetServer::Generic is what Datacash's payment servers ran on for about the first 3-5 years (I can't be exact because I left after about 40-42 months). I gather the last of my code was retired from production in 2008.

apotheon2• 16 years ago

Well . . . nothing worth mentioning in the last few months, but I have some stuff in the queue. Does that count?

Information, Freedom, Rights and Duties

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