Your good name. Trademark it. Protect your Web site registration. You can’t protect your code, but if someone wants to fork it they can do it under another name. (Image from BrandChannel.)
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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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Before one believes "You can’t
Before one believes "You can’t protect your code [...]" one should learn about the propagandistic term "protect" -- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection In the ZDNet.com article, "protect" is used without explication leading the reader to assume that if one is not distributing proprietary software, one's code is somehow vulnerable. Quite to the contrary, proprietary software harms users. One helps the community by writing and distributing free software and one's code might also see improvement in a technical sense. Improvement is, of course, subjective but since everyone deserves the freedom to make their computer work as they want, this is fine. The technical improvements are convenient and nice but the key advantage to free software is the social solidarity that results from working together with others in freedom.