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On 09/10/10 17:16, tom brough wrote: > > Doing a quick audit of FLOSS that would be useful to Schools and in > particular looking at school focused software portals like SchoolForge, > its disappointing to see that a lot of the listed projects have not been > updated in at least a year some a lot longer. Also a number of broken > links on these sites are not impressive. It is inevitable that projects > will fall by the wayside, but sadly this does not help to promote the > open source cause. It's rather hard to compare OSS with proprietary software in this respect since proprietary "failures" can be easier to "disappear". (Especially if only a few people ever knew it existed.) Where as OSS may well be documented by a third party fairly early on in its development. Possibly even before it has been determined if there is a "market" for it. Proprietary software tends to do "market research" very differently. In any case of broken links the best first action is to tell the whoever runs the site which links are broken. If there is no obvious contact information try webmaster@<domain>
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