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By ColonelZen, Section Diary
Our pet PR repeatedly complains that we are not F/OSS.
This is of course idiotic. He himself asserts that there are many ways of contributing to F/OSS other than code, but it occurs to me that it may help keep everybody on an even keel if we lay it out. So this diary entry is for coders to blow their own horn. Please consider yourself welcome in commnets to talk a little bit about the code and other contributions you've made. Not to mention just a way to get to know ourselves better collectively. For myself, it wasn't a lot and it's been a couple years since I've released anything F/OSS. tjfm is LGPL, and my prior code releases were more or less PD. I ought go through my "toolbox" for the last few years and just throw some of the utility routines I've written into the F/OSS pot. By themselves there's probably nothing much there that other coders haven't done themselves or couldn't do for any individual class, method, or routine themselves in as little time as it would take them to learn how I've done it, but collectively it might save somebody time somewhere or give a newbie a starting place. Contributions: tjfm: (http://tjfm.sourceforge.net) LGPL. A type 4 jdbc driver for mysql. Now much superceded, it had it's day of dominance as the primary jdbc driver for mysql. I like to think it helped boost the interest in mysql at a critical time ('98-2000). POPFETCH for VM. (PD) a tool on the mainframe to pull mail to user's accounts from various pop servers. (fix) qpopper (PD). Some code changes to the qpopper code to account for release changes in the operating system. qpopper is/was a pop mail service runnable on VM (mainframe). Linux on VM project outline. This wasn't code as such but more a critical path outline to migrating Linux to the mainframe a couple years before it happened. I don't know how much (if any) this influenced the IBM skunkworks team that released what is now the primary mainframe linux code, but I know this plan and the (extensive) discussions around it had some influence on the people who were working on bigfoot and that in turn had at least a little influence on the later developments of the IBM version. Plus, of course lots of little scripts and programs in various emails and newslists for accomplishing little tasks and illuminating how-tos related to all of the above. -- TWZ (as SOP please zero comments without substantive new material)
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