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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
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Open Source Spam?
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:Description:
    Chregu and me recently seemed to have received or first "open source spam"
    (never knew, such existed...) at Planet-PHP. The following email landed in
    our mailbox (names obfuscated):

`Chregu`__ and me recently seemed to have received or first "open source spam"
(never knew, such existed...) at `Planet-PHP`__. The following email landed in
our mailbox (names obfuscated):

.. __: http://blog.bitflux.ch/
.. __: http://www.planet-php.net

    Foo is a community of the lovers of the php and that they develop a
    project called Foo Framework.

    Bar (Foo Framework) is born with the idea to use the browser as
    environment where to be able to perform the applications stand-alone and
    for the web.

    The language of programming used for the project is the PHP, and Foo
    includes a complete collection of classes, organized in levels and
    families (packages), that allows to plan and to implement a software
    making wide use of the OOP.

    Besides, Foo is the first environment of development that makes available
    an interface graphics, easy to use, to quickly build using the browser an
    application or simply a site.

    The framework and the whole visual environment of development is under
    license GPL, therefore completely free.

    Our framework is your framework therefore we invite you to spread it, to
    use it, to widen it and to signal every possible malfunction to us, to the
    purpose to improve and to share with the whole community what is done.

Funnily it had an example of the usage of this "framework" attached... As a
PNG! ;)

|image_1|

.. |image_1| image:: /applications/blog/uploads/open_source_spam.png

Seems to be really useful, isn't it? ;)


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Comments
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- David Rodger at Fri, 05 Aug 2005 06:01:42 +0200

  This same image turned up at Sitepoint:
  http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=286807.

  The original post was removed, but there it was claiming to be something
  called Green Orange Framework. The web site was garbage with the same claims
  and no documentation. Originally, I thought it was some newbie trying to
  look good with a bit of self-promotion.

  I just can't imagine what anyone would gain from this sort of spam since
  there's no pay-off. (I don't even recall seeing ads at the GreenOrange
  site!)

- Arnaud at Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:17:31 +0200

  It makes you wonder what those people think open source is.

- Tobias Struckmeier at Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:58:03 +0200

  Here is another one of the Green Orange PHP Framework spam
  http://www.php.de/ftopic43998.html

  LoL :)

- Tobias Struckmeier at Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:16:31 +0200

  Hey by the way. This framework must be terrific. Have you ever see a
  framework which is able to interprete/execute image files? 

  LOL LOL LOL Open Source is fun ;)

- Max at Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:01:05 +0200

  Hi All,

   it is not spam, it is only an announcement of the new php framework. free
  as the beer. You excuse if I have given the wrong impression.

  Max for GreenOrange.org

- Toby at Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:51:08 +0200

  Sorry, guy, but unwanted email including a standard marketing text and some
  nonsense PHP code inside an image is what one generally describes as spam.

  Btw. what should this so-called "framework" be good for? The shown code is
  purely nonsense.

- Max at Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:07:33 +0200

  You think well to it !!!