I'm starting a collection of mirrored pieces that either A) truly shaped opinion about copyleft, free software, or linux or B) provide incredibly useful to helping new comers understand the community and philosophy behind the free culture and free software movements. So I'm asking you, what do you think are some of the most important pieces out there?
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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devnull
3 years 5 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago
if anyone has any
if anyone has any suggestions please let me know in here, Anything classic by Linus, Stallman, Doctorow, a forum member that wrote an amazing post about the linux community, anything. I'm just looking for the most top notch essays, posts, blogs entries, wikipedia pages, etc that will really help the new user understand the history, philosophy and the community.
Thanks.
can.axis
3 years 5 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago
Two must read stories
Here's my two favorite stories ;)
devnull
3 years 5 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago
Do you know if the rest of
Do you know if the rest of the transcript was ever completed regarding the Software Freedom Day speech?
can.axis
3 years 5 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago
No, I don't, sorry
No, I don't, sorry... but this can help ...
bogdanbiv
3 years 5 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago
Freedom is an enabler, not a feature
Shameless plug:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/community_posts/freedom_enabler_not_...
Normally, I don't promote myself, so considering I wrote this piece, I would not submit my own work, but the guy administering FreeSoftwareMagazine said this is good and that I have insight.