btw, just one thing, having seen this slashdot comment: https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17816088&cid=60823564 https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si

btw, just one thing, having seen this slashdot comment: https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17816088&cid=60823564 https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17816088&cid=60823... what i strongly recommend that google do - instead of doing this work which is, as you've probably noticed from the comments, well-meaning but highly likely to be biased - is: *make a large donation to NLnet* don't tell them what to do with the money: leave that up to them. NLnet is extremely good at ensuring that money is used effectively, by requiring that they come up with a project plan involving milestones. they do not just "dump money at the developer", which has a known high historically-backed probability of causing more harm than good: they require the milestones to be completed, 100%, before the money is paid. note, here: they do not use algorithms to assess a project: they use people. they also assess the proposal against the usefulness of achieving key objectives.