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Microsoft: ‘We love [subverting the definition of] open source’ Made popular 1 year 38 weeks ago
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Groklaw Responds to FUD About OIN Made popular 1 year 38 weeks ago
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Novell, Patent Lawyers, and Gartner Group a Major Part of the Software Patents Problem Made popular 1 year 39 weeks ago
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Western Digital is Bad for Freedom (and for GNU/Linux) Made popular 1 year 40 weeks ago
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Microsoft’s Top Competitors Are GNU/Linux or Users and Vendors of GNU/Linux Made popular 1 year 41 weeks ago
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Canonical is a Marketing Organization Masquerading as an Engineering Organization
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Media's response to the hacker != cracker open letter Made popular 1 year 41 weeks ago
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Freedom in Phones Under a Regime of Software Patents, DRM Jail, and Other Forms of Malice Made popular 1 year 41 weeks ago
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Open letter to the media about the misuse of the term "hacker" Made popular 1 year 42 weeks ago
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How MS Belittles ODF, Using the “Choice”-Themed Lies
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Stallman on Microsoft Sponsorship Made popular 1 year 42 weeks ago
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EFF wins enormous victory against DRM Made popular 1 year 43 weeks ago
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Gnash development is stopped: funding plea Made popular 1 year 43 weeks ago
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Blackboard and TSC Block GNU/Linux in Education Made popular 1 year 42 weeks ago
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ASUS Dumps Vista 7, Goes With Linux Instead Made popular 1 year 42 weeks ago
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Richard Stallman answers your top 25 questions Made popular 1 year 43 weeks ago
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Diversity is Good, Proprietary Software Giants Are Not Made popular 1 year 43 weeks ago
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Tech Genie Thinks It’s Time for OpenSUSE to Say Goodbye to Novell Made popular 1 year 43 weeks ago
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No Minister: 90% of web snoop document censored to stop 'premature unnecessary debate' Made popular 1 year 44 weeks ago
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GPLv3-licensed Open Source now dominates at Google Code Made popular 1 year 43 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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