Kudos?

One of Arsehole Boss’s “Great Ideas” (excuse me while I piss myself laughing) is to market the code we’ve been developing (U-Turns and all) over the last year as “Open Source”. As such, he’s created a project on SourceForge for the stuff I/we’ve written.

Bear in mind, Arsehole Boss hasn’t actually written any of this stuff himself, and as the last week or so has ably demonstrated, he also has absolutely no bloody clue how it works, why it works the way it does, or even what the real general concept of it all is. But all the same, it’s got to be “Open Source”, and then at some point we now need to re-write it (a-fuckin’-gain) to become the modular “click’n’drool” thing that he has now decided it should be. Hmm, that’ll be full rewrite number 7, then.

Anyway, he’s also insisted that I list myself as one of the “founders” of this project on SourceForge. Supposedly this will be “cool”, and get me lots of “respect”. (As you can tell, this kind of thing is really what I work for – hence why I’ve linked to it so many times etc.) Personally, I suspect that this is more about the things that motivate AB, or at least make him feel important – and as such, it’s kind of interesting.

All the same, in the eyes of other people (and admittedly, only really in the eyes of other geeks) is it a good thing to be a co-founder of a registered Open Source project?