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Interview with Tim Perdue. GForge and behind the scenes at SourceForge

So I have. Here, and Cheers from the Great White North.

Actually, the address you want is here

• stable opensource
  
• In developement apps free/opensource, other (watch these)
  
• other apps free/opensource, other (watch these)
  

-Steve Mallett of OSD

It states on the download page that it's not validating XML. And did you take a look at the DTD for this? It's very simple, about as simple as you can get. Basically useless for rigorous validation.

I agree your way of structuring the data is better, but I would add that many of the data items should be attributes. I mean you have elements and attributes available, why not use both? It would have made things much faster and cleaner to keep up to date and ensure all parsers can validate it quickly. Can you really see a SAX parser making use of that xml? And a DOM parser would consume an enormous amount of memory needlessly. Oh well, I'm sure they were in a big hurry to get this info available. And it'll get well cleaned up in the next few months.

Ultimately the info is open for catching bugs like this one. If it is a bug it will get weeded out.

-Steve Mallett of OSD

Microsoft is an economic entity & must be fought that way.

Help us create demand for open-source'd products.

If markets demand open-source than companies must comply.

http://opensourcedirectory.org

If there is someone left with rights that has the power to sue for loses, then that is the same someone that would be required to continue its support or that person/company would probably be liable for damages in the first place.

When a f__ked company dies, a holding company buys up its assets, including GGM[0] rights. The holding company may then discontinue the product and support therefor, leaving you with no central license servers.

"So crack it." Four letters: DMCA. And even a copyright owner brings about no legal action, the Federal government can still prosecute criminal copyright infringers in the US.

Rented software (and proprietary software in general) give me too much discomfort for me to continue using them more than absolutely necessary. A large library of free software makes this "absolutely necessary" absolutely small.

[0] Government Granted Monopoly. I prefer this term to "IP" (intellectual property) because it more accurately describes how the United States Code treats copyright, trademark, and patent issues.

Where is the 'Kernel' topic? I find it very strange that there is no place to put the Linux kernel, or MACH for that matter.

The "Operating System Kernels" category in the directory is right HERE, waiting for OpenBSD's audited kernel and a Linux kernel stripped of experimental features to be added.

Why the needless Windows bashing? Is it that impossible to think that people can develop open source programs for Windows???

Except there's a section on that directory dedicated to apps that run on MS-DOS and/or Microsoft Windows.

But how open is open? - they don't seem to say what definition they are using!

Or do they? I looked in the site dics and found that OSD's definition of open source is any software under a license approved by the Open Source Initiative, from free GPL2, BSD2, X11, and Clarified Artistic to flawed QPL, BSD1, and Python 1.6 to too-vague-to-be-free Original Artistic. (Sources: free | open)

I'd love to put myself out of this misery, but my retinas just detached and I can't find my gun.

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We decided to build the site after a quick email to a certain higher mammal at OSI. Right now we are in the first growth stage which is to get authors to register their stable releases. Come one, come all. The basic idea of the site is to provide one hub where someone will know the software they are looking at is open-source and is developed to the point it should work.

It would seem to me that it's at least partially aimed toward businesses. It would appear that way since they want to want to "present a place for developers and endusers to find information about STABLE Open-Source products". I wish them well, though they need to clean up their spelling mistakes and not post IRC logs as an explanation for what they do. This has the potential to be really great; many times I'll see an interesting app on Freshmeat, but it's not Free. Don't get me wrong, non-Free software has its place, but this ought to be nice, to have a place where you can go to search only stable, Free software. (Konqueror fills an important gap on the Free/Open Source side of things... all the pieces are falling into place now.)

Good luck guys, and please take this for the constructive criticism that it's intended as.

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We decided to build the site after a quick email to a certain higher mammal at OSI. Right now we are in the first growth stage which is to get authors to register their stable releases. Come one, come all. The basic idea of the site is to provide one hub where someone will know the software they are looking at is open-source and is developed to the point it should work.

It would seem to me that it's at least partially aimed toward businesses. It would appear that way since they want to want to "present a place for developers and endusers to find information about STABLE Open-Source products". I wish them well, though they need to clean up their spelling mistakes and not post IRC logs as an explanation for what they do. This has the potential to be really great; many times I'll see an interesting app on Freshmeat, but it's not Free. Don't get me wrong, non-Free software has its place, but this ought to be nice, to have a place where you can go to search only stable, Free software. (Konqueror fills an important gap on the Free/Open Source side of things... all the pieces are falling into place now.)

Good luck guys, and please take this for the constructive criticism that it's intended as.

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We decided to build the site after a quick email to a certain higher mammal at OSI. Right now we are in the first growth stage which is to get authors to register their stable releases. Come one, come all. The basic idea of the site is to provide one hub where someone will know the software they are looking at is open-source and is developed to the point it should work.

It would seem to me that it's at least partially aimed toward businesses. It would appear that way since they want to want to "present a place for developers and endusers to find information about STABLE Open-Source products". I wish them well, though they need to clean up their spelling mistakes and not post IRC logs as an explanation for what they do. This has the potential to be really great; many times I'll see an interesting app on Freshmeat, but it's not Free. Don't get me wrong, non-Free software has its place, but this ought to be nice, to have a place where you can go to search only stable, Free software. (Konqueror fills an important gap on the Free/Open Source side of things... all the pieces are falling into place now.)

Good luck guys, and please take this for the constructive criticism that it's intended as.

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