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OSS Pizza

Pizza! ——– I guess everyone, well everyone active in the computer scene, knows that feeling? I mean that urge for pizza, like there wouldn’t be any other food on the planet that that one pizza the delivery boy will bring you once you got the order out? Sure everyone does. But did you ever wondered where this urge comes from? Is it just appetite? If it would be then the toast in the fridge would do the same job as a ordered pizza right? But first to a completely different topic, did you ever wondered how all that genius open source coders earn money? I don’t mean that ones that toss out a little program once in a lifetime but people ‘Linus Torvalds’ (perhaps the best known one for writing the first Linux kernel). I mean doing such things consumes *a lot* of time and as commonly known pizza is not for free. Well if you ever wondered about that you’re definitely not alone, some guys on M\*U\*S\*H (a online community) including myself wondered about that some time ago too and, believe it or not we found an answer to *both* questions! The answer is nearly too simple to even get the idea: Pizza delivery! Yes that simple, they worked as pizza delivery boys. The question raises where someone would find time to code such great things that are seen in the open source world when delivering pizza. Again the answer is unbelievable simple pizza boxes, they work greatly as a place to make notes on, smaller code snippets or with big sized pizzas even larger peaces of codes. The fact why programmers love pizza is easy to conclude, as Darwin already stated ‘survival of the fittest’, it is a genetical reason to buy pizza in the result that programmers who bought more pizza not only had more to eat but also might stumbled across one of this useful pieces of code written on their pizza boxes and managed perhaps to pay their bills thanks to being able to doing more (or better work) which raised their chance to survive longer then coders who weren’t able to pay their pizza and by chance were beaten to death with a rolling pin.

Posted by Heinz N. 'Licenser' Gies Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:54:54 GMT


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