Say you bought a cellphone. Say you decided you didn't like the look of it much.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could sketch your ideal design, have a buddy knock it up in a 3D modeling program, then see it in the flesh? With OpenMoko's FreeRunner, an open-source linux cellphone, it's a piece of cake: the CAD files are on the net for all to download.
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Since 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).
I 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.
Dark Star
4 years 10 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago
Gr8 Open SOurce Platform..
Open Moko is one the best Mobile OS .. It will surely rock the stage.. and hope open source coders will make this project a wonder ;)
kiba
4 years 10 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago
All they have to do is
All they have to do is release the fricking phones.
I won't be getting it though, because I am just a high school student with very little money.
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