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Old 06-06-2012, 11:10 AM   #1
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LXer: Pulling a Lunduke, open-sourcing your software and feeding your family


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Just 8 days ago I stated that, if I could pull together just $4,000 in contributions, I would Open Source (under the GPL) all of the applications and games you see on this site.As of about 10 minutes ago, we have hit $4,001 (and some change).That’s right. We pulled it off. Because we are awesome.We showed that we, as a community, could rally together to fund a developer working full time on Open Source applications. Now What?Now things get fun.Tomorrow I will be updating this website and releasing free (as in beer) builds of all of the software available here (including Linux Tycoon, Illumination Software Creator, etc.).Then I will be setting up project tracking tools and source control for each application… and uploading the source code licensed under the GPL.

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