I managed to get quite a bit of work done on the OpenSourceList.org website. My new PHP and MySQL driven version still isn’t quite ready to become the main site, but it’s getting very close. I am already adding entries and hope to move over within the next month. It won’t be perfect, but it will be better. So if you are looking for open source software check it out.
Quite a while back I started a site devoted to all the free stuff you could find on the internet. It was a monument to my cheapness. Well, the dotcom bubble burst, the free stuff started drying up, and I lost interest. Slowly I developed a new interest in open source software. It was free, thus appealing to my cheap side. It was open, giving it a chance to have a life beyond that of the interest of any one devloper or company, appealing to my lazy side. I was getting tired of finding replacements for good software that suddenly either cost money or vanished completely.
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