"It is time we stop the term open source from getting hijacked. I recently wrote about how tech media doesn’t get open source. The events in the last week or so have confirmed my thesis further."
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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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can.axis
4 years 42 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago
it is simpler to speak about technologies;
it is simpler to speak about technologies; some proposals around terminologies:
- Software Robots
- RESTful web services
- Agents-Ressources
Software Robot could be free or proprietary; but today, they are not covered by GPL, arent't they? I'm sure they will in the future; so it'll be possible to talk about Free Software Robot, as we talk about Free Software today...
kiba
4 years 42 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago
This confirm my suspicion. The
This confirm my suspicion.
The term open source is becoming diluted.
Open source as a term sucks anyway.
However, nobody tried to hijack Free softwares just yet. It doesn't lend itself well to marketingspeak :)