"Stefano Spinucci" virgo977virgo@gmail.com 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,