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You can't pseudonymously contribute to most OSes of note. Linux for example.

flotzam 6y ago
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but sure you can contribute to the Linux kernel pseudonymously. Think of a plausible name, "git commit --signoff", and you're good to go. There's no enforcement of slave names for kernel contributions, it's all just a minimally viable legal fiction.
- mrtranscendence 6y ago
  Slave names, really? You can lie about your name, I suppose, but strictly speaking you're violating the stated rules and could face having your code rejected or removed: "code from anonymous (or pseudonymous) contributors will not be accepted". (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/1.Intro.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/1.Intro.html) And since you mentioned GNU, would you be able to pull the same trick on a GNU project? Don't they require you to sign away your copyright, with paperwork? So you wouldn't be able to contribute to (some portions of) GNU/Linux pseudonymously.
  - flotzam 6y ago
    > Slave names, really? It's a common way that pseudonym aficionados refer to their civil names. Gallows humor. > You can lie about your name, I suppose, but strictly speaking you're violating the stated rules and could face having your code rejected or removed: "code from anonymous (or pseudonymous) contributors will not be accepted" And yet it won't be rejected or removed. The preceding sentence is "It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software." If you don't betray the project, nobody will make it a problem.
    - mrtranscendence 6y ago
      > It's a common way that pseudonym aficionados refer to their civil names. Fair enough. That verbiage made me think you were a "freeman on the land" or something.
finnthehuman 6y ago
Is it Debian-level keysigning where you need to have an ID checked? Or do you just need a better fake name than hackerman420?

I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but sure you can contribute to the Linux kernel pseudonymously. Think of a plausible name, "git commit --signoff", and you're good to go. There's no enforcement of slave names for kernel contributions, it's all just a minimally viable legal fiction.

mrtranscendence 6y ago
Slave names, really? You can lie about your name, I suppose, but strictly speaking you're violating the stated rules and could face having your code rejected or removed: "code from anonymous (or pseudonymous) contributors will not be accepted". (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/1.Intro.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/1.Intro.html) And since you mentioned GNU, would you be able to pull the same trick on a GNU project? Don't they require you to sign away your copyright, with paperwork? So you wouldn't be able to contribute to (some portions of) GNU/Linux pseudonymously.
- flotzam 6y ago
  > Slave names, really? It's a common way that pseudonym aficionados refer to their civil names. Gallows humor. > You can lie about your name, I suppose, but strictly speaking you're violating the stated rules and could face having your code rejected or removed: "code from anonymous (or pseudonymous) contributors will not be accepted" And yet it won't be rejected or removed. The preceding sentence is "It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software." If you don't betray the project, nobody will make it a problem.
  - mrtranscendence 6y ago
    > It's a common way that pseudonym aficionados refer to their civil names. Fair enough. That verbiage made me think you were a "freeman on the land" or something.

finnthehuman 6y ago

Is it Debian-level keysigning where you need to have an ID checked? Or do you just need a better fake name than hackerman420?