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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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Erlik
2 years 50 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago
Happy to see you back.
I am happy to see that you are back and not gone for good!
I made a post to inform my readers of your return!
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Mr. Psychopath
2 years 50 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago
Yay!
I'm so glad this place is back. To me, it really is the hub of Free Software news.
stargrave
2 years 50 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago
Re: Yay!
Yeah! Me too. I feeled all the pain of missing FSDaily. I understand how great it is!
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Ubuntu87
2 years 50 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago
Welcome back!
The first thought that came to my mind when I found out that
FSDaily is down was that it got DOS attacked by a bunch of goons and vandalists. (ya know what's going around these days with other websites like Boycott Novell)
Fortunately I was wrong though. :)
Let's hope this doesn't happen again because FSDaily is my favorite FOSS website of all time, and I wish you guys all the best!
Welcome back! :D
capricornus
2 years 50 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago
3FN
FTC Shuts Down Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider, 3FN Service Specializes in Hosting Spam-Spewing Botnets, Phishing Web sites, Child Pornography, and Other Illegal, Malicious Web Content.
Jeez! He saved us.