Filed under: Business, Internet, Open Source
SourceForge launches open source tech support Marketplace
For example, say you've got an open source business application hosted on SourceForge. Users can download it and use it for free. But where do they go for tech support? They could rely on the usual tools of the open source community, turning to message boards, email, and IRC channels for support. Or they could pay you a fee and receive priority support.
Or if you're capable of developing applications, you can advertise your services. It's free to post a listing, but SoureForge will take a percentage of any resulting transactions, usually around 10%.
Right now there are only about 700 listings in the marketplace, which just emerged from beta testing. But SourceForge has 1.7 million registered users, so that number could grow very quickly.
[via InfoWorld]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
