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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?"

3 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. What programs have you paid for ? by RGRistroph · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What trialware or shareware programs were good enough that you "registered" or paid for them ?

    Were you coerced into it by nag screens and lack of functionality, or was it primarily good will and the desire to do the right thing ?

  2. ans: FREENET! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The answer is to upload your file into freenet!

    What does it offer in this situation?

    Automatic load balancing.
    You are guaranteed integrity and validity of origin.

    Freshmeat should add to the meta info for each file, an optional link to the file through your cookie configurable freenet proxy.

    Think of freenet as a distributed application like SETI, where the output is freedom of speech without risk of oppression for everyone running the program.

  3. Re:"Comments are owned by the poster" is misleadin by odin53 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Especially since, "Comments are owned by the Poster" is misleading authors about the terms.

    Why is this misleading? Your comments are still owned by you. This means that all copyright rights a copyright holder has accrue to you, and you alone. By posting on Slashdot, you agree to abide by its terms of service, which essentially require you to give Slashdot an open-ended license to copy your comments. But you and you alone still own the comments. In the end, only you and Slashdot have the right to copy your comments. You pose the situation where you become a CEO and Slashdot is allowed to publish your comments, but the other -- and only other -- side of the coin is that if you become a famous CEO, ONLY YOU and Slashdot can publish your comments. That's what it means to be a copyright owner (and licensor to Slashdot).

    That's what you get for the ability to post to Slashdot. Those ToS probably won't be found invalid for a number of reasons, the main one being that *you still own the copyright.*