On 1/4/07, MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote:
In short: catalogues of non-free software are considered harmful.
At least it is often harmful to me not having such a catalog. We have over 10000 users and they ask me often for proprietary software products and sometimes I do not have enough information to suggest an open source alternative. I am aware of 2 sites that can help: Wikipedia and www.osalt.com which is not community driven. Swik.net is helpful too but it does not refer to proprietary software or file formats.
What about enhancing the Wikipedia content? Isn't that good enough? We should discuss how to enhance it because there are different pages that needs to be considered: product pages, file format pages and more general pages like 'Flowchart' and such...
Regards, Torsten