As an Open Source kinda guy, it’s hard to read this and not LOL just a little bit.
“We are aiming to remove the barriers that hobbyists and academics have faced in the past, by allowing them access to the best software and hardware that can be developed…”
Oh? You mean, correctly, the barriers that hobbyists and academics that only focus on closed-source development have faced, right?
It’s hard to read this and not take away from it a feeling that Microsoft sees Sourceforge, shits a brick, and then wonders why they can’t get something like that going. Ya know?
I, admittedly, have a habit of going through sites I have developed to make sure they are OK. They are like my little children, I suppose. I was really expecting to get some panic-stricken email today about the aplus.net website to say it had all gone to hell after we left yesterday.
I forgot to mention that the reason I changed the banner on the homepage from whatever script it was using before to jQuery extended by Mike Alsup’s Image Cycle plugin is that, in the future, I intend to use jQuery sitewide as I’ve had the best success with it as far as cross-browser compatibility goes. What we had previously didn’t work on Safari or IE6. So, there you go. In case you wanted to know. Which you probably didn’t.
