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October 21, 2002
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Top 11 Reasons You haven't contributed to an open source project

11. Agoraphobia. I'm afraid of open spaces.

10. Will I need a compiler for that?

9. I'm prohibited by the terms of my probation, because of the last time I "shared" source code.

8. I'm too busy mucking up my own code to muck up other people's code.

7. Does my MP3 playlist count?

6. The projects to which I want to contribute are all so good already, and the projects that need my contribution aren't good enough to be associated with.

5. "Copylefting"? Is that anything like cow tipping?

4. He who owns the code lives happily ever after ... with royalties.

3. I just can't bring myself to pattern my life after the namesake of a blanket-dragging, thumb-sucking member of the Peanuts crew.

2. I'm still trying to figure out how to use WebTV to upload my PERL module to C-SPAN.

1. OK, stop nagging. Here you go. Copyright Â©1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
10 PRINT "HERE'S YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT!"
20 END

Thanks to Juan Diaz, Bruce McCrea, Stephen Nowak and Greg Stigers for their submissions.

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