Anyone connecting form Iran is blocked from accessing certain Google sections (Google Summer of Code 2009 site in the example)
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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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gnufs
3 years 5 weeks 11 hours 57 min ago
happening for some time
it seems this is happening for some time:
http://jadi.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/5/1/2917242.html
lozz
3 years 5 weeks 10 hours 50 min ago
Do what I do
I have eliminated all Google links from my computers for a long time. Their bad habits far exceed their good ones.
As soon as I install Firefox, Google is the first thing that totally gets the flick. Noscripts are set to refuse all Google syndication and all their tracking cookies are permanently banned from my machines.
For all their "open source" pretensions I don't trust them as far as I can spit a rat. They'd be a second M$ if they got half a chance.
Ban Google before they even get the chance to ban the Iranians. There's plenty of good search engines available without having to resort to this would be monopolist.