I was surprised that ZDNET has publishes an article about "Torvalds: Retirement won't see death of Linux". Don't they know what open source is all about? The great benefit of open source is that it doesn't depend on one supplier whether it is a person, a group or a company.
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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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motters
4 years 15 weeks 4 hours 9 min ago
Community
This is true. In the closed source model because few people have a detailed knowledge of the inner workings of the software the loss of a key individual can be a show stopper.
The open source projects which fail usually do so because there was never sufficient interest in the first place (too much of niche), or because companies experimenting with open source because it sounded fashionable didn't realise that they wouldn't be able to strictly control every aspect of development in the same way as a proprietary project. In an open source project you have to work within the community, rather than commanding it from above.
kiba
4 years 15 weeks 1 hour 40 min ago
Community based development
Community based development model is not the only development option you have in the Free world. You could still do it the old fashion way.
For example, I am developing free software for commercial purpose.
The only difference is that I am committed to guaranteeing my users that they will own the softwares they get from me.
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