Microsoft's software removes the latest Mozilla Firefox.
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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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3 years 45 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago
Terrible Journalism
The second sentence of the referenced article to the Inquirer, it says that Microsoft's antimalware tool wasn't intended to remove Firefox 3 but is actually a different program. This makes this BN article to be inconclusive and therefore not news to anybody. Please don't confuse inconclusive evidence with fact.
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3 years 45 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago
Typical BN story
Vote this one down. Firefox 3 is not removed by the anti-malware tool. Some settings of Zonealarm conflict with the latest Vista security patch, causing all browsers to either crash on startup or simply not be able to access any web pages.
BN just preferred to ignore that part of the story, because “Zonealarm Causes Internet Borkage with Vista Security Update” isn’t such a sensational headline, is it?