Top 50 proprietary applications and open source alternatives

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Top 50 proprietary applications and open source alternatives

A couple of these are dated (NVU…), but Jimmy Atkinson put together a great rosetta stone for those looking for open source alternatives to their proprietary desktop apps.

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/

Posted by md on February 11th, 2008 | Filed in Desktop, Eclipse, Firefox, Linux, Open Source Software, Technology, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »

One Response to “Top 50 proprietary applications and open source alternatives”

February 11th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

Vadim P. said:

Thanks for pointing the list out :)

I’m suprised Notepad++ didn’t get on there as a text editor though. It’s simple awesome, and I think it even ranked 4th in some sourceforge ranking.

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