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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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lozz
2 years 34 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago
Monopolies luv monopolies
M$: "You're such a cute looking monopoly that I want to give you this Silverlight for a keepsake."
Intel: You're a pretty good looking monopoly yourself, big boy, and I just loove anything with silver in it."
Don't it make you want to throw up?
jk2001
2 years 34 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago
inferiority complex
This reminds me of when MS made a version of Windows Media Player for the Mac - it sucked, but worked just well enough to play media, and show you that the same file would look better on Windows.
Moonlight will just be a reminder of how it's inferior to Silverlight.
There are some better alternatives (Flash, anything native, and possibly even Java), but people don't judge by examining the entire range of possibilities. They judge based on a specific situation.
When the situation is "I can't view it on this machine", they feel like they're missing out, but can't quantify what they're missing. It's when they can compare two similar experiences when they can evaluate that one is better or worse... and put a price on it.
MS will probably add hidden features to .NET that make Silverlight run better than Moonlight.