Another GNU/Linux distribution throws Mono out; Microsoft's foundation may adopt more from Novell
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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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Ubuntu87
2 years 35 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago
Quick question..
Why do you keep saying "Moon gets closer to Microsoft"?
I mean, was Mono ever far away from Microsoft so that it gets closer to it now?
Mono is basically a Microsoft product made and maintained outside the Microsoft labs. Am I right?
lozz
2 years 35 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago
You're right
You're not wrong. Novell is already so close to Microsoft that many people automatically think of this trojan entity as M$-Novell.
Mono developers are more dangerous to GNU/Linux than a court full of patent trolls.