Ubuntu, the Linux distribution which tops the charts these days, is developed using this closed system. Kind of a contradiction in terms, one would think.
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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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lindi
4 years 43 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago
Now that the article mentions Google:
Now that the article mentions Google: How should one go about building a free search engine? Is it enough that the software is free or should we also try to build a free metadata index so that not everyone has to start crawling web from scratch?
spikeb
4 years 43 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago
the article is right on - launchpad
the article is right on - launchpad is proprietary, and so is the new landscape tool. canonical is a proprietary software vendor.
kiba
4 years 43 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago
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kiba
4 years 43 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago
I believe Wikia is working on this. For
I believe Wikia is working on this.
For web services, I believe it is more important for the users to easily switch services as well having the ability to download data dump than have totally Free softwares. Open standard is more important in this case.
Also website owners should choose Free softwares over their proprietary softwares as much as possible. This is for their own benefits, not the users. So they will alway have freedom to operate their website as they wish.
Otpal
4 years 43 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago
Yes, very insightful article. Google
Yes, very insightful article. Google (for sure) and Canonical (nay be) are sucking as much "open information” as they can while we are navigating the web. It is as dangerous as Microsoft dominant position because it's done in silence.