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No Privacy for FOSS Developers?

Benjamin, thank you for ruining this year's Chrismas days for me. I know, you didn't do this intentionally, but I have really bad days since I am aware of the privacy strip each Free Software developer does due ill-considered "services" like ohloh.net.

I don't want anyone to do statistics about FOSS contributions. Those stats make me feel naked. What follows is some longish explaination of my feelings regarding such "services", those not interested should just skip to my proposal.

Also I do not like the stats at ohloh.net, because they draw ...

Facebook and friends

On the school yard all the cool kids smoked.

I don't smoke.
I don't do Facebook, GMail, and friends.
I hope you see the link.

More elaborateled: I've grown up in a country having big brother organizations like the Stasi. They were wrong. The fact that big-brother-like organizations are run by private entities those days doesn't ...