Linux Fund is pleased to announce Linux Fund Casino, an open source online gaming site that will launch immediately upon the impending repeal of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), the proceeds of which will benefit Linux Fund's mission to support open source software.
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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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nco71
3 years 7 weeks 55 min 15 sec ago
ethic
Is that really ethical to make an open source casino to fund such a project ? Look like a big joke to me ... same level that microsoft marketing ads.
lozz
3 years 6 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago
Check the date
Check the date - 1st April.
nco71
3 years 6 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago
stupid me
I could argue that the post was posted today ... So I didn t expected to find a first April Joke ( Although I didn t trust anything on internet on that particular day )
haha it s so crazy , how I fell in that :(
arito
3 years 6 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago
Not 1st April anymore
This is one problem with the Internet that printed media doesn't have. In the Internet, April Fools Day stories may circulate for a long time afterwards, although people are not expecting them after the first of April. It would be good, if those who submit these stories afterwards, would mention that the story is an April Fools' joke. The original ones might be marked the day after too. Many of the fake stories are easy to detect (as they should be - at least in the media that one is supposed to take seriously) but some times you just can't tell. So many suprising, unlikely or even strange things happen in the world today, that it's often no wonder if one falls for an April Fools' joke told days later. In many countries you are not expected to tell an April Fools' joke after the noon, or you will be called an "April Fool". Perhaps this, applied to the whole day, should be a practice elsewhere.