Last night I received a google alert about a new blog posting with a most misleading title. The title read "OSI Approves Microsoft's 'Shared Software' Licenses". This half-truth was paired with another half-truth: that I was President of the Portland-based Open Source Initiative. (The OSI is incorporated in California.)
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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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boottux
4 years 29 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago
The open source folks are getting
The open source folks are getting a taste of their own medicine. Open Source is a marketing term for Free Software. Free Software has had to educate people about the difference between free software and open source because of the OSI, now let the OSI educate people about the difference between "open" and "shared". What goes around, comes around.
schestowitz
4 years 29 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago
Misinformation? I think not. The
Misinformation? I think not. The OSI did this to /itself/. Looking at the news from last, what do I find? Here... from he past few hours...
Another 'open source' faker. Nothing to do with open source apart from something in the company's name...
Open Source Storage and DISC Partner to Enhance Open Archive Initiative
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/51033005cp.shtml
Another 'open source' faker appears to have just been acquired.
Fonality Calls In Acquisition
Telephony vendor Fonality has made its first acquisition by purchasing open-source CRM provider Insightful Solutions.
http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Fonality+Calls+In+Acquisition/2186...
Open source integrator (moocher)...
GigaSpaces, GridGain to Provide Robust Grid Solution
The GigaSpaces-GridGain partnership is part of an ongoing initiative at GigaSpaces to work closely with the open source community. As part of the relationship, GridGain is distributing GigaSpaces XAP Community Edition, a free version of GigaSpaces' flagship product. Other open source projects that are integrated with GigaSpaces include the Spring Framework, Mule ESB and Hibernate.
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1866383.html
dehumanizer
4 years 28 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago
Haha. Microsoft have named their
Haha. Microsoft have named their licenses 'shared source' because they wanted to avoid fanboys saying 'hey, this ain't open source' (and some of their licenses truly arent, e. g. MS-RL).
This is misinformation (== FUD) from online media.