"Stefano Spinucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we shouldn't present *every* single alternative to proprietary > programs, > but only a polished and well organized list of good free software programs. > > Couldn't be this part of the advocacy project ???
Actually, why not work on persuading FSF to release the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory http://directory.fsf.org/ data under a free software licence (not FDL)? I would help work on adding features like MIME-types, file extensions, approval voting better indexes and search interface to quagga (the software running the directory, which seems to be perl/python/ mysql/xml so I can hack it) but I'm deterred a bit because the database is a valuable part and that's not free software. Any features I added to quagga could be used to support the not-free-software database, so it's not pragmatic for me to hack quagga. Is there enough interest to start a GPL'd alternative database? Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
