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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to get paid for open-sourcing your work?

Submitted by kc600
kc600 writes: You're a freelancer, using mainly Open Source solutions. You notice that customers, although they don't object to the whole Open Source idea, don't see the point in paying you for the time it costs you to properly opensource your code.

As a result, code is not released, because it would take too much time to factor out the customer-specific stuff, to debate architecture with the other developers, look at bug reports, etcetera.

You feel there's something to contribute that many might benefit from. The code would also be better maintained if more people would use it, so the customer's project would also benefit. But you're not going to do it in your free time, you have enough on your mind and the bill is paid, right?

What useful tricks can you think of to encourage yourself — and your customers — to properly share code, to the benefit of all, and get paid for it?
Security

Submission + - Police fined for using unencrypted memory sticks (computing.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Information Commissioner's Office has filed a suit for E120,000 against the Greater Manchester Police because officers regularly used memory sticks without passwords to copy data from police computers and work on it away from the department. In July 2011, thousands of peoples' information was stolen from a officer's home on an unencrypted memory stick. A similar event happened at the same department in September 2010. "This was truly sensitive personal data, left in the hands of a burglar by poor data security. The consequences of this type of breach really do send a shiver down the spine," said ICO deputy commissioner David Smith.
Businesses

Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? 630

Posted by samzenpus from the your-time-is-our-time dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I work in a call center, full time, for a large mail order pharmacy. Recently, as part of their campaign to better track time spent both at and away from our desks, they have started tracking bathroom breaks. They use a Cisco phone system, and there is now a clock out option that says 'Bathroom.' My question is whether or not this is in any way acceptable in a large corporate environment (Around 800 people work at this same pharmacy) and is it even legal? How invasive would this really be considered, and beyond privacy concerns, how are they going to deal with the humiliation that their employees feel as a result of this? Has this happened to any of you?"

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