"...What means promoting Free Software through Free Culture? It means we need to start advertising the collaboration tools in our software. We have to enable and encourage artists to share their work with other artists and with the world - just as our programmers do..."
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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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Writing and logic need help
The idea that we need to concentrate on promoting software freedom by promoting other exercises in collaborative freedom is interesting, but the note doesn't really sell it very well.
People generally choose software based on features because they're looking for a tool that supports the job to which they intend to apply the tool. A free-as-in-speech screwdriver will not help you drive a nail into a board.
You're not going to convince most people to use free software unless the available free software meets their needs. Analogies to Wikipedia may be useful in convincing software people to participate in creating FLOSS software, but there's no logical connection to convincing users to use free software - if it's not something they can contribute to, they're not going to see the opportunity to contribute as compelling.