I applied for my multimedia company to be in the DMOZ over 1 1/2 years ago. You can go to a message board to see if your accepted http://resource-zone.com/ . I went to that board asnd was told I was accepted over a year ago. I still haveen't been placed into the directory. about half a year ago I applied to become an editor since the editor wasn't doing thier job. I was rejected by the editor of that area. I found it strange that the same person that's not doing the job imediatly rejected me. I have over 20 other companies that I have submitted to them, and none of them have been put in the directory, but all of them have been accepted within a week of submiting. Un fortunatly the people who are listed get much better ratings in google. I think there needs to be a closer look at what is really going on with the DMOZ. Any company who canaccept you but doesn't post you because of competion, shady practices and so on should not be recognized by a company such as google or any other search engine for that matter.