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Adobe: 'Open' But Not Always Open Source
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Listening to Last.fm in Emacs Made popular 3 years 22 weeks ago
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Microsoft FUD Alert Made popular 3 years 22 weeks ago
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Adobe learns lessons of open-source Flex
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New ISO: Denial and Damage Control, as Standard Made popular 3 years 47 weeks ago
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Brazil Protests OOXML Too! Asks Approval Be Reconsidered Made popular 3 years 51 weeks ago
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Why the OOXML Vote Still Matters: A Proposal to Recognize the Need for “Civil ICT Standards” Made popular 4 years 13 weeks ago
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Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors Made popular 4 years 13 weeks ago
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Source what? Made popular 4 years 13 weeks ago
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Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash Made popular 4 years 13 weeks ago
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Open Document Foundation closes up shop Made popular 4 years 27 weeks ago
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Linux and its identity crisis Made popular 4 years 35 weeks ago
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Anonymous browsing with JAP Made popular 4 years 36 weeks ago
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Inside PDF: Fast Tracking
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IBM dives into OpenOffice.org development Made popular 4 years 37 weeks ago
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ISO confirms negative voting on Open XML Made popular 4 years 38 weeks ago
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Microsoft FUD Watch: OOXML Edition Made popular 4 years 37 weeks ago
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How to Hack ISO Made popular 4 years 37 weeks ago
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What the...? Australia abstains on OOXML vote Made popular 4 years 37 weeks ago
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Can Other Vendors Implement Microsoft's Office Open XML? Made popular 4 years 40 weeks ago

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Anybody up to writing good directory software?

Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David Jonathan

Since 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 Russel

I 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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