Software engineers are often touted as people whose logic is excellent. That's why I'm amazed when some of these so-called virtuosos always indulge in personal attacks when they spot something with which they disagree.
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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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ModplanMan
3 years 43 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago
He's the crass one.
This is like a bunch of 4 year olds in a playground.
First of all, the original was looking for a spin. Quite clearly. Taken from the original article:
But then since he can't piss off the GNOME people altogether (the interview was done at the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference), he added: "The flipside (sic) to that is that this predictability and also the choice of the LGPL has made GNOME very good for business."
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Does he then favour a switch away from GTK to QT? No, he merely thinks "it would be perfectly possible to deliver the values of GNOME on top of QT."
I'm not too sure about values when it comes to GNOME - unless it's the push to wholesale, crass commercialism. But then that's my view.
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and earlier in the same article:
Given the amount of flak that the recent KDE release - 4.0 - has taken from the pro-GNOME pundits at sites like linux.com, you would think that the worst possible thing any supporter of GNOME - as Shuttleworth is perceived to be - could do is to speak out in support of anything associated with KDE.
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I'm sorry, but he quite clearly deserved those remarks. To make such statements like those then claim innocence in being attacked is bs, not the guest commenters. Grow up.