Australians and New Zealanders will be expected to conform our laws with US copyright laws, yet we don't get to vote in US elections. The American Revolution was fought over this very same principle!
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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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Yankee, go home!
Don't tell us what we will legislate in our own lands, Mr Obomba!
If you want to try that caper you'll need to give us the vote in your own country and let us run our own candidates in all of your elections. Maybe, you'd like to try your luck by running for election in our countries, then?
We really don't need your shifty FBI goons sneaking around our countries, trying to extort money from our free citizens, so that your RIAA and MPAA can pay their drug bills before the Mafia comes round and whacks them all.
Ohh, you'll send your navy around to bomb all our schools and hospitals back into the stone age, like you just did to Libya, if we don't.
America: land of the secret detention facility, home of the terminally corrupt.
What's that infernal buzzing noise coming from over the roo...
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