With Linux Distros taking sides, this week's announcement that Microsoft promises not to make Necessary Claims against anyone using their patented specifications adds to the confusion. At first glance, this looks like a safe passage for Mono, but as we delve in deeper, we see that not everything is legally in the clear.
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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
2 years 46 weeks 12 hours 10 min ago
Never trust M$, ever
M$ has proven themselves totally untrustworthy at all times in the past and there's no reason, whatsoever, to suspect that they've suddenly developed a modicum of honesty with their Mono manipulations.
Ubuntu87
2 years 45 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago
Exactly.
Exactly. This is what I keep telling people, but all I got back was someone calling me an idiot.
I mean, just look at it. Does it really make sense that M$, company that always made it clear that Linux is a cancer -By the tongue of their CEO- would change their attitude all of a sudden, unless there's some kind of a dirty plan behind it.
It's not at all surprising that a company that broke all the laws and standards in the past would still do something similar in the future.
lozz
2 years 44 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago
Slur an honour
It's an honour to get called "an idiot" by a M$-Cultie, hysterically trying to defend the indefensible tenets of his faith.
They are all brainwashed, but at least you made the effort.
The internal M$-memos that can be read at Boycott Novell scream of well-established cultic behaviour.
A group can use cult-like behaviour, just as easily to sell 3rd-rate software, as they can use it to sell 3rd-rate political or religious agenda.
M$ is a particularly unhealthy cult and you do well to speak against it.