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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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In beta, but not accessible...
UbuntuOne is currently only available by invitation, and there's a waiting list (with an unspecified waiting period) for an invitation. Not only that, but their service is 6x as expensive as Dropbox (per GB, pre-paid yearly) and works (according to their docs) only on Ubuntu, whereas Dropbox works on Win/Mac/Linux. They offer 10GB of space for $10/month ($120/year), whereas Dropbox (with whom i am NOT affiliated) offers 50GB for $10/month or $100/year pre-paid.
i just don't see a compelling reason to choose Ubuntu over Dropbox. Until we see the source code for the UbuntuOne server, there's not even the "but it's free as in GPL!" argument.