The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has launched a campaign to raise money from its members to hire lobbyists to protect them against the dangers of "Copyleft."
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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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lozz
1 year 43 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago
ASCAP = RIAA
There's no difference between ASCAP and the RIAA in either their tactics or their objectives.
schestowitz
1 year 43 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago
MAFIAA
Those front groups of BMG/Sony/Warner/Universal can conveniently be lumped together and called MAFIAA. It's both comical and informative, IMHO.
lozz
1 year 43 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago
MAFIA-Monopolies
Yeah, the original Mafia were exactly the same. The corporate "families" would attempt to establish criminal monopolies over drugs, rackets, prostitution, gambling, protection, etc., then they'd send out their hitmen with tommy guns to enforce their criminal "law".
This current crop of corporate gangsters are no more "legitimate businessmen" than Al Capone ever was.