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Finding Freeware Listing Sites?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-the-nearest-mountaintop dept.

A not-so Anonymous Coward asks: "CNET's download.com has become a 'pay to list' service, so it doesn't make sense to list freeware there, anymore. What are the best alternatives? Also, you cannot post linux software there anymore for any price: 'Note: We are no longer accepting any new submissions for Linux, and we will be discontinuing all coverage of Linux on our download sites shortly.' What is the hard working but generous coder supposed to do?"

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  1. The answer: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is the hard working but generous coder supposed to do?

    Start writing Windows shareware obviously.

    1. Re:The answer: by leifm · · Score: 4, Funny

      When I was taking VB6, which was unfortunately required for my degree, my teacher was sitting in class one day 'coding' something, and someone asks him what he's doing. And he says with a straight face "I'm writing a screensaver that will display pictures from a directory and after 5 pictures it locks up and they have to pay me $30 to continue using it"

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      "Windows Me offers tremendous reliability and stability improvements..." -- Paul Thurott
  2. Apparently.... by Ummagumma · · Score: 2, Funny

    What is the hard working but generous coder supposed to do?

    Apparently, sell your software.

    *rimshot*

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    "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson
  3. Re:What programs have you paid for ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows 3.1. After that I got an internet-connection. ;-)