Nice Gallery of Open Source PHP Apps
open.srcphp.com
open.srcphp.com
I guess I can see how it would be useful from a developer standpoint; developers who are hardcore on PHP now have a place to network, showcase, share ideas, explore the range of functionality of PHP, etc.
It's actually quite similar to the idea I had, originally, for my site. Originally zentu was going to be a "developer network" of sorts. . .
But in the end, I thought there's more use to be had by classifying according to end-use functionality rather than languages; however, I made sure to devote nice, hefty sections to development frameworks, CMSes, etc:
Not to steal thread thunder or anything. ;)
P.S. and my site certainly isn't as pretty. . .
That's how Rails got so popular.
It tends to make sense to put most of the effort on frontend usability, especially for web apps.
Developers who think through clear UI are more likely to get the back end right.
I don't really care about design; that's someone else's job. But I bet I can code the backend fine.
Err, that's not really the point of free software. The free software movement is more about freedom than not paying money (libre vs gratis).
You really want to stick it to the man? Pirate proprietary pay-for software. But you wouldn't want to do anything illegal now, would you?
Beware that in some cases, that's still a net gain for the proprietary vendor: if you weren't able to pay much for, say, Photoshop, better to have you as a Photoshop user who will buy it at some later date, recommend it to your friends, and otherwise participate in the Photoshop using community, rather than, say, learn Gimp on Linux.
Use Gimp or buy Photoshop?
But this is reality, and the reality is that pirating is easy to do even with all the DRM/anti-piracy stuff that is in place.
For those that would use open source, it's a net a loss.
It's like the old saying: "Only thing worse then being talked about.."
Only thing worse then being pirated is not being pirated.
I'd say the logo looks more like the Nissan Motor Company logo.
[Edit] I did a quick search. They are all stolen from Blue Circle Industries. See for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Circle_Industries
But really, probably not. Someone else must have had it before.