As some of you may know, Beranger, a long-time FOSS-lover/’harsh critic’ has ended his love-hate relationship with Linux by announcing to the whole world that he has jumped ship.
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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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Hasta la Vista?
Bye bye, Beranger, I guess you'll be staying home for Christmas after getting your brand new Vista, brand new Office, then enough brand new hardware that Vista will agree to commence operations, after its fashion.
Here's a copy of a Christmas card the Free Software Community can now send to Steve Ballmer;
"Merry Christmas Stevie boy. We're sending you this slightly used Beranger for your Christmas pressie. It's kind of a novelty item because it whinges all the time, no matter what you do.(hint: you could try placating it with one of those "complimentary" laptops you give out to selected bloggers, but you'll have to put in plenty of ram so it can run its new Vista a bit faster than Win 3.11 on a 486, or you'll never hear the end of it)
We were kind of stuck for a suitable reply to your generous present of that Hovesepian, back in 2006, until this surplus Beranger suddenly became available. We can guarantee you'll hear from it about 3 minutes after it first manages to get Vista running, then again, and again, and again......"