The OSI seems to mention us again because it slowly realises that Novell and Microsoft build a shared monopoly
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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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Balzac
3 years 39 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago
Is the OSI is "slow to realize" what Micro(Novell)soft is up to?
Or is it just that the OSI just doesn't really care about software freedom? Maybe that's the reason they've gathered under the banner of "Open Source" rather than "Free Software.
The OSI doesn't want to be "political" so maybe these things Microsoft and Novell are doing is right in step with the "Open Source" approach. Making money by marginalizing a more principled movement seems right in line with the work of the OSI over the years.
Rhapsody
3 years 39 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago
In other words...
"The OSI seems to mention us again because it slowly realises that Novell and Microsoft build a shared monopoly"
So, a duopoly then? Seriously, there's a word for this.