I've always been curious who are these people who commit so much personal time on open source projects (instead of doing rounded corners kind of web 2.0 work) and I googled Jeff Garzik, seemingly the most productive developer during this release:
Notice that even his home page is all about his projects as opposed to self-promotion.
Compare that to the douchebag Seth Sternberg (http://bit.ly/1m9PTZ), who built a company on top of libpurple's team open sourced work, bragged about building "from nothing to something" and didn't even mention them in TC article, preferring to speak about his "desire to build the next great thing" buillshit instead.
i'm sure many startups rely on open-source projects that they don't bother mentioning. while i wouldn't call it nothing, libpurple is just a c library for abstracting IM protocols. there's still a lot of other work to be done to turn that into a fully scaled web service.
http://linux.yyz.us
Notice that even his home page is all about his projects as opposed to self-promotion.
Compare that to the douchebag Seth Sternberg (http://bit.ly/1m9PTZ), who built a company on top of libpurple's team open sourced work, bragged about building "from nothing to something" and didn't even mention them in TC article, preferring to speak about his "desire to build the next great thing" buillshit instead.