They need to decide which is better, free software or non-free software. This response to a concerned email, aims to clear up some issues and misconceptions.
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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 28 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago
Yeh, but only if they understand
Yeh, but only if they understand the implications of free software. It is not easy getting people to understand why software should be free - that assumes that they even understand the meaning of free software.
I confess that it has taken me time to understand the rhetoric of free software, and it has taken me more time to understand why non-free is evil. After a few months of living in a mostly free software environment, I came to the conclusion that the user should have the right to be in complete control their own hardware. This is impossible to do with non-free software. Since the situation for us (free software activists) is still less than adequate, I have made the decision to be an activist for free software.
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4 years 28 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago
It too has also taken me a while
It too has also taken me a while to come to the decision. Something I've been thinking about over the past 8 months I've been using Gnu/Linux, and only since the last 3 or so months I've been using it as my full-time computer.