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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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dawith
2 years 50 weeks 21 hours 45 min ago
Rock ON!
At first I gave it +1 vote (the article pointed out that this software is 'open source', thus free software). But on their website the authors sate that "it's free software (as in free beer)", free for non-commercial uses. So, it's not free software that this portal is about and it gets a -1 vote from me. But the concept seems really interesting.
bogdanbiv
2 years 49 weeks 5 days 30 min ago
Proprietary software with a small part free as in freedom
The guy or gal that makes this software encourages further software development on top of his software, through a SDK (good idea!!):
http://littlebigstar.net/w/MusicWare
# that all MusicWare available in the SDK is licensed under the LGPL open source license and derivative works must remain under that license.
# that some assets, models and textures available in the SDK are copyrighted by their creators.
So part of his SDK is licensed as a free as in freedom software, but his software itself is still proprietary. And downloading the software requires registering on the forum, how's that for freedom!?\
But wait there is more to it! Using the software requires installing:
Soo... she started on a good concept of MusicWare, reusing his software as a platform upon which others can build, but in my opinion s/he took a wrong turn and went deep into proprietary software... so back to Frets on Fire http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/