Monday, February 23, 2009

Greenpeace - How electronics companies line up

Very interesting read. I am going to need to use this next time I am unsure of what company to go with for a product (when talking about two or more comparable products).

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Old freeware should be open sourced

If you make freeware, you could open it up for others to help or build on. Clearly this opens you up to more bugs, but it also opens you to innovation and others fixing all the bugs.

What about when someone no longer wants to/cannot develop their application any more? Examples:
StrokeIt
DVDShrink
All the tools by AnalogX

I SourceForge a good location for these types of applications?

Is there a better place where developers can put their applications' source code so it will be opened up to the public if development stops on it?

I don't know the answers to these questions. I have not used SourceForge for anything but downloading applications. I hope to get more time to look into this in the future. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to leave comments.

A quick google search and I found these sites for 'open source software management': http://dotproject.net/
http://gforge.org/gf/
http://dcl.sourceforge.net/
http://www.taskjuggler.org/
None seem to have the feature I mentioned, but they sound useful none the less.