There is a lot of free software available and much of it rivals the quality of software that you have to pay good money for. Here is a list, in no particular order, of some of the best software currently available for free.
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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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akf
1 year 40 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago
not free as in freedom
Google Sketchup is afaik not free as in freedom. Neither is Safari nor Opera, and at the end he even claims that Internet Explorer was free software.
spanky
1 year 40 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago
Oh the confusion!
And he thinks that free software is the opposite of software you pay for...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
mclaud2000
1 year 40 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago
Please upvote, great article on opposition
This is a great article about opposition to free software: It's interesting to see the vision of proprietary software users about software.
It seems that the advertising campaigns of companies like Microsoft and Apple are really working for the worst: Not only users can't distinguish between free (as speech) software and free (as beer) software, now users even can't distinguish between software free (as beer) and software they are paying up with the license fee, such as IE and Safari! Free as long as you have already paid for it...
Quoting the article:
"So next time you fire up Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, or even Internet Explorer, thank your lucky stars that these crucial parts of our lives are free. Browsers may be the ultimate free software."