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>You kinda have me completely misclassified. I was using linux before you. I remember what it was like in 1995. It'll take full time work to do more than keep X on life support. That will most likely require a full time employee or 5 somewhere.
Linux-kernel didn't require full time employees in 2000.
I remember it touted.
I got my first laptop in 1999. The HDD broke, sent it in, when it came back it wouldn't let me run windows, so I installed Mandrake, used it for a month. Then got the laptop fixed again and with the default windows install. Used windows for a day. Went back to Linux. Gave all my old proprietary games to my Cousin (he is now in prison often on meth, after moving with his family to tenessee).
I remeber how hard it was to get opensource programs: that every new opensource program was announced on slashdot and was a victory.
Now I'm berated for adding 200 weapons to an opensource fork I work on, and 50 maps, and city generation.
Back then I would have been thanked.
I can't get in touch with any programmers anymore.
Back then it was so easy.
All our forums are ghost towns now.
Even 4chan only has 12-13 posters in each thread.
What happened?
I think we're all on silo'd internet nodes: overlooked by military intelligence.
We don't have access to the full internet: infact I think there are now many IPv4 internets (4 billion max addresses).
I can't email Bruce Perens anymore: no matter what email provider I use. In the past I could. Changed a number of years ago.
Remeber the 100 page threads on 4chan when it was "less popular", how you couldn't keep up.
Strange it's "more popular" and yet threads only have 12-13 people.