Announcing the birth of a new site dedicated to the development, distribution, and documentation of GNU licensed software. MicroGNU opened for buisness 1 March 2008.
MicroGNU was developed by Jerrald Meek. MicroGNU Software was created for the purpose of releasing software under the GNU license.
The developers of MicroGNU feel that the public has been duped into paying far to much for substandard software. Some of these packages cost hundreds of dollars. Several contain memory leaks, cause system faults, and degrade performance. The best ones may be bug free but they still use to much memory and run far to slow. It is cheaper to write bad software, and if you can convince the world that it is awesome, they will pay as if it were.
Several organizations attempt to distribute open source software. Often these packages are superior to commercial packages. This is because open source software can be modified by the user. If a user finds a defect in a program, they can develop their own fix for the problem. Often users who fix defects in open source software will be kind enough to report the bug and the fix to the original developer. The developer can then incorporate the fix into future releases. Ultimately this results in very reliable and efficient code.
2) Most open source software is developed with developers in mind. This severely limits the market for open source software.
It is the hope of MicroGNU to develop and distribute software for a variety of purposes, and suitable for users of all skill levels. As this software is developed and released, MicroGNU promises never to release a product for public use without licensing it with one of the GNU license agreements.
MicroGNU is a for-profit operation. The founder of MicroGNU believes this to be necessary in order to grow the organization to a point where it may some day be able to introduce world wide consumers to a higher standard of software at a lower price.
No, MicroGNU is not run by or related to the Free Software Foundation. Anything published by MicroGNU is the work of the MicroGNU creators and does not represent FSF in any way.
That said, MicroGNU does use the GNU license agreements published by FSF. These license agreements are redistributed by MicroGNU in an unaltered state, as per the stipulations of their use. MicroGNU would like to express their thanks to FSF for allowing the public to use the GNU license; it has become an invaluable tool in the development and release of free software.
MicroGNU expresses special thanks to the following internet resources.