Arguments on why anyone would/should support open source applications.
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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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4 years 11 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago
Proprietary software is evil
You should support free software because proprietary software harms society in the long run. Even right now, society is being harmed by the proprietors that subjugate users into helplessness and divides communities from cooperating.
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4 years 11 weeks 30 min 43 sec ago
Effects of Helplessness
Examples of the effects of helplessness include not having the program run on your system of choice (Adobe Photoshop, every single proprietary game), forced upgrades to remain being able to share documents with others (Autocad), having features that you know that you don't need and thus is overqualified for your requirements (Microsoft Office), malicious software such as spyware and rootkits (Sony root-kit music discs) and programs that contain anti-features such as Digital Restrictions Management (every proprietary DVD player).
If you reject all proprietary software and accept only free software you, the user, will have all the right to demand to control the software running on your computer. You do not have to depend upon the original author(s) to help you with your requirement, you may sponsor any developer to help you (or you can do it yourself if you know how to).
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4 years 10 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago
Proprietary Software Violates Property Rights
That is such an overly complicated moral reasoning.
For me, it is simply a violation of property rights.
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