I’m a firm believer in the idea that if you pay for hardware, you should be able to make full use of it. However, DRM and content protection mechanisms are increasingly making this difficult for people.
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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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motters
4 years 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago
Another reason not to downgrade to Vista
This kind of stuff is totally unacceptable in my opinion. Sure, you can install other tools to get around the problem, but you can be pretty sure that whatever loopholes those tools are using will be shut down in future "service packs" or forced installs.
windowsrefund
4 years 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago
Another whining brat
Anyone who is still using Windows deserves the problems this article discusses. Whiners like this don't like DRM because it interrupts them from watching movies yet, they are blind to the fact that it attacks their freedoms. I have no patience for these whiners and think we need to start calling them on their "it's all about me and what I want" mentality. Installing a band aid like AnyDVD on their freedom restricting operating system is a joke of a solution. If they had any integrity, they'd be running as fast as they could to a freedom granting operating system like GNU/Linux.
Oh and if you're thinking about responding by telling us how hard GNU/Linux is to use or that it might not "support" feature foo or bar out of the box, spare me. I could care less.
kiba
4 years 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago
It Would be Amusing if M$ Didn't have a Monopoly
If there were a truly free market, Microsoft wouldn't get away with the DRM, as well charging ridiculously high price.(In theory, an efficient market dictate that all software goods to be 0, the marginal cost of production for softwares)
In a free market, M$ is an amusement for the rest of the industry, But when M$ ruled the industry, it is a social catastrophe.
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