The last time I saw Richard Stallman was when he got into a bus that I was on in Cambridge, MA about 6 or so years back. His name comes up often whenever the Free Software Foundation , GNU , or open source software in general is discussed. It should have been no surprise for me to see his name show up in Ohloh , a “ free public directory of open source projects and people ”. What surprised me was where I found it: There we go. Five slots above mine. My Kudo Position recently received a fairly large boost (as evidenced by the +2339 above) due to Secure-Endpoints pushing Network Identity Manager and the KCA Provider for Network Identity Manager into GitHub. Once this got me excited about my Kudo Rank, I discovered that much like democracy, the rank isn’t based upon my opinion of my work or the quantity thereof, but on what others think about it. So how exactly is the Kudo Rank and Kudo Position calcuated? Ohloh’s About Kudos page describes the process. The Kudo Rank is ba
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