We balance freedoms (sacrifice one freedom for another) everyday. We sacrifice the freedom to do whatever we want to live in a society where laws keep us safe. And we'd rather be safe than do the things that are illegal (well most of us anyway). So we sacrifice a freedom we wouldn't exercise (to commit crimes) for ones we do want to exercise (to live without being the victim of crime).
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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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MrSnippity
3 years 22 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago
Sacrifice all for the 4 freedoms
You must never give up the 4 freedoms! Even if it means you must sacrifice that printer/wireless-network-card/graphics-card/other-piece-of-proprietary-driver-requiring-hardware you already paid for; even if it means sacrificing that MS-only software you already have a license for; even if it means sacrificing communicating with your friends and family who only use skype; even if it means you must sacrifice medical attention if it requires the use of proprietary software driven equipment (BTW that's almost every piece of medical equipment); even if it means you must sacrifice your career because it requires you to use/promote/develop/interact-with-in-some-other-way that proprietary office-suite/photo-editing/music-editing/video-editing/accounting/web-design/engineering/etc/etc/etc-software...
You may end up starving on the streets but at least you will have the freedom to use, study, modiy and share the software for the computer you can no longer afford. Those freedoms are worth every sacrifice.
Actually, on second thoughts... go on ahead, I'm with ya.