Declan Naughton wrote: > Hello again Crossland! > > On 2/5/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am proposing that this is a practical problem, not an ethical one. >> Please explain the ethical dimension of this. > > Google is of course being unethical in their refusal to release source > code. We Google users, in a sense, are supporting that. Which would be > nearly very excusable except for the fact that there are better > (ethically that is) alternatives which are very much usable. I'm gonna > be looking out for them as of now. It shouldn't be difficult to get > rid of Gmail, but I think I'll need to be excused for not finding an > alternative search engine - although I would HAPPILY support any > better-ethically efforts to put out a search engine to compete with > Google - does anybody know of any? I've come across free search engine > _software_, but usually it's not the software but an interface to an > index of the web I want. If the developers release the backend code, > that'd very likely put them ahead ethically, so they can count on my > support even while I reluctantly use Google to find what I need and > can't find off them. > > That's how I look at it all.. I would and do well use non-free > software (at least, in the same way we all do), but very reluctantly. >
There seems to be a project on Wikia to create a search engine which uses free software (http://search.wikia.com). As far as I know, all of the results pages will also be free content (under the FDL without invariant sections), as the whole Wikia site is at the moment. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
