Top Ten Open Source Projects

arclightfire writes "We recently wrote an article for The Independent listing the top ten open source projects. It was hard getting the list down to ten, but we did; here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge." What would you call your favorite projects? Obviously, this list isn't strictly software projects, so be creative.

Erm

[squoozer]

Slashdot of course :o)

pbb?

[Anonymous Coward]

here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge.

In case, like me, you're wondering what on earth "pbb" is, let me spare you the searching:

"pbb" at Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] redirects to "Polybrominated biphenyls", with no disambiguation link.

"pbb" on Google [google.co.in] returns nothing remotely related to open source.

"pbb open source" on Google [google.co.in] returns phpBB [phpbb.com] at the top.

So why the zark does the summary say "pbb"?

Re:"this list isn't strictly software projects"

[mwvdlee]

How about the Bible, Quran and Torah?

Hm yes, let's change some of the texts in those books. I'm sure it'll go down well with the readers.

Re:Erm

[Pieroxy]

On a side note:
It was hard getting the list down to ten, but we did; here's the top ten: *enumerating 12 items*

It was indeed pretty hard, so hard that the editor couldn't resist the temptation to slip 12 in there!

lol
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