Bashing Microsoft for being closed and proprietary has been a popular pastime in the media and the IT industry for many years, and there is no doubt that much of this has been well deserved...Apple’s business is evolving and see a lot of similar traits to those that were apparent as Microsoft was gaining power.
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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 24 weeks 17 hours 57 min ago
You should Value Your Freedom
This a plea for people to value their freedom. While people are completely justified for vilifying Microsoft for their evil actions, people seem to be short sighted as they seem to forget that other companies are equally evil. Apple is equally guilty as Microsoft of distributing proprietary software, promoting anti-features in their products, promoting treacherous computing as well as promoting digital restrictions management. All this are true of other well known companies such as Nintendo and Sony.
There is really only one way to get these companies to stop abusing society: society should stop supporting abusive actions of these companies. Unfortunately, society will continue to support abusive actions as the majority of society are ignorant or amoral about the issues.
So please, value your freedom and stop supporting these abusive attacks on our freedom.
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3 years 24 weeks 7 hours 31 min ago
The enemy of my enemy
Yeah, the old mis-logic that, "the enemy of my enemy must therefore be my friend". We shouldn't fall victim to such faulty reasoning, Apple certainly won't.