Well yes but with new technologies people are finding it hard to browse through dmoz and others like. Dmoz really need to change to an engine like oozm.com or something different.
I agree with this, ALthough not completly about the 1st site bit. It seems nice but i don't think it's a copy of dmoz because dmoz is pretty much for every website while this softball one seems to only be about softballs sites and such.
it could legally use a section of dmoz database since is open for general use: http://www.dmoz.org/help/getdata.html