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Two of my friends are working on a "am I hot or not" for code that (AFAIK) has features like this. The url is http://codesmackdown.com/ but there is nothing there yet. Hopefully me posting this on-line will get them to get off their ass and release something.
Sadly I've seen lots of re-invention of the wheel because battle-tested, proven, reliable component X that was available for FREE on-line weren't licensed under terms that were acceptable to a particular organisation. I think the benefits of a permissive open-source policy aren't just in the sense of satisfaction it can bring to the developers, but in real measurable dollar terms to the cost of projects.
Good point....like how MS's profit/revenue ration (in 2009 anyway) was ~28% vs. ~18% for Apple http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/09/the-money-made-by-micros...
Unless it runs on OSX, in which case it's cool and edgy, right?..right?
Reminds me of a line from a song "Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'".
Turning into a working vacation works until your kids reach school age, or your significant other gets a job of their own that they can't just "put on hold" for a month.
This is remarkably similar to the site my friend Leon set up, which he artfully called "Creditcardology" - see http://secretgeek.net/cco/CCO.HTM