The Top 50 Proprietary Programs and Their Open Source Alternatives

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  1. AlexC

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    AlexC, Aug 31, 2013
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    Very nice laid list.

    I guess I'd also like to see a list that doesn't switch out OSs from Windows to Linux. A lot of those programs have Windows ports though.
     
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    A lot of open source programs are multi-platform. They look, feel and work the same no matter what operating system they're on. That's their advantage over proprietary software. :thumb:
     
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    It's not a Linux-specific list. For instance, 7-zip and PDFCreator are not on Linux and NeoOffice is only for OS X.
     
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