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Full story »Since 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).
I 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.
cparker
4 years 27 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago
You're posting instructions for
You're posting instructions for installing proprietary software on Free Software Daily. Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture? Please limit submissions to news concerning free software.
greengrass
4 years 27 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago
Well, to be fair, it does "concern"
Well, to be fair, it does "concern" free software - Ubuntu is free software. And the information may of interest to the free software community.
dehumanizer
4 years 27 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago
It may be useful. Oh, and Google
It may be useful. Oh, and Google supports free software and does not eat babies like many proprietary... oh wait
"Please limit submissions to news concerning free software."
Due to the fact that the #2 tag here is Microsoft, I find this hilarious.
peacemaker
4 years 27 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago
@dehumaniser What Microsoft
@dehumaniser
What Microsoft does often concerns the free software community. Patents, formats, standards, legislation they lobby for, monopolization, "IP", deals (with governments, OEMs and companies like Novell), FUD against FOSS, etc. The list goes on and on regarding the areas where the FOSS community needs to be made aware of what MS is up to. Besides that, it's not the site or the community's choice but the media's choice to make so many comparisons between FOSS and MS products. I think using the "microsoft" tag when a story or article is partly about Microsoft is valid.
dehumanizer
4 years 27 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago
peacemaker: I agree, but then a
peacemaker: I agree, but then a software package that actually makes it easier and more comfortable to use a free desktop (even if that package is proprietary) should not be complained about.