Self-explanatory. The organisation is particularly concerned with the situation in Australia;
"Hi,Thanks for signing the NoOOXML petition. 143 Aussies signed the petition so far, pretty good showing, though I think over a thousand people signed in Portugal.Unfortunately the Australian standards body seems to be totally asleep, and the vote is being treated as an IBM vs. Microsoft thing. When MS threatened New Zealand with sanctions if they did not support OOXML, there was outrage."
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.
seaeagle
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago
Great idea, but you would probably
Great idea, but you would probably get a lot more people signing the petition if they weren't required to join up with a closed mailing list requiring moderator approval first.