Frequently Asked Questions: Posting Comments

Last Updated on August 26, 2026

We love reading your comments. And we want our readers to see and understand different points of view.

Your comment may be an insight, opinion, suggestion, idea or feedback that is relevant to the subject of the article. It’s not an opportunity to sell, promote, or advertise any product or service. Keeping your comments concise will increase the chances that other people will read them.

Relevance

Comments should be relevant to the article and should not stray off topic.

Can I post links in comments?

We don’t publish external links in comments. This is for the following reasons:

• Stop spam.
• Bad links – we don’t want to edit users’ comments. If we allow external links, we either have to fix broken links or leave them. It probably wouldn’t be detrimental from an SEO perspective to leave bad links in comments as they are always nofollow. But broken links are just annoying from a user perspective.
• Sometimes links are legitimate to start with, the domain name expires, and a spammer gets control.
• We spend a lot of time fixing links in our articles. We’re a small band of merry open source enthusiasts. Our time is better served publishing high quality articles rather than fixing bad links in comments.
• Links in comments are automatically quarantined. This means there may be a delay in publishing the comment.
• If you want to notify us about a link, complete this form instead of making a comment.

Can I suggest additional software to be included in a roundup?

Absolutely.

If we’re missing a useful open source program from a roundup, and the software is not already listed on our site, complete our software submission form.

We carefully curate our roundups rather than trying to list every available program. We are particularly cautious about software developed largely or almost entirely using generative AI. AI-assisted development does not automatically exclude a project, but we look for software that works well, offers something worthwhile, is genuinely maintained, and is developed by someone who understands the code they are maintaining.

Please read our policy on AI-heavy projects before suggesting this type of software.

There’s information I’d like added to an article. What’s the best way of going about it?

Post a comment to the relevant article. We’ll incorporate all relevant information into the article.

Are there other guidelines?

Please ensure your comment is relevant to the subject of the article. For example, if a roundup includes the text “Free and Open Source”, restrict your comments to software that’s both free (i.e. no charge) and published under an OSI-approved license.

We publish curated roundups, so we deliberately don’t include every program that’s available. Software may not be included for a variety of reasons. For example, it might be substandard, abandoned, insufficiently maintained, heavily AI-generated without adequate developer oversight, or simply not relevant to the roundup. Its licensing conditions may also preclude its inclusion.

Inclusion in a LinuxLinks roundup is a recommendation, not merely an acknowledgement that a program exists. We therefore assess the quality, usefulness, maintenance and suitability of software before deciding whether to include it. This is not an exhaustive list of the factors we consider.