Comments on: The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/ Web Hosting Database Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:25:59 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: alex http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-858 alex Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:46:54 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-858 I disagree with your choices with XML editor, do you know editix : http://www.editix.com . Best regards I disagree with your choices with XML editor, do you know editix : http://www.editix.com .

Best regards

]]> By: bigjohnny http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-857 bigjohnny Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:05:07 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-857 Windows Media Player to MPUI opens MPG, AVI, Divx, Quicktime, Realplayer, nearly everything. It's a GUI for mplayer. http://mpui.sourceforge.net/ Windows Media Player to MPUI
opens MPG, AVI, Divx, Quicktime, Realplayer, nearly everything. It’s a GUI for mplayer.
http://mpui.sourceforge.net/

]]> By: Dan http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-855 Dan Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:14:40 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-855 You missed out Notepad++! I can't believe that - it's possibly the best open source HTML editor for Windows that there is! You missed out Notepad++! I can’t believe that – it’s possibly the best open source HTML editor for Windows that there is!

]]> By: DOBius http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-853 DOBius Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:41:14 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-853 realplayer may run on linux also.. realplayer may run on linux also..

]]> By: Roland http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-852 Roland Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:08:33 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-852 Great list - thanks! I'm have been using a number of these programs for some time, I plan to check out several more as a result of reading this. I second the vote for SMPlayer - I tried VLC and MPlayer, and SMPlayer is just or good or better, plus you don't need to go hunting down new codecs regularly. IBM has served up Lotus Symphony, which is based on Open Office code. The interface is a bit different from OO - one could say "dumbed-down" a bit, but in some ways much better. LS is to be integrated into the R8 release of Lotus Notes, if that matters to anyone. Finally, I cannot believe that someone seriously wrote that he runs Windows on a Mac so that he can use IE... -Roland Great list – thanks! I’m have been using a number of these programs for some time, I plan to check out several more as a result of reading this. I second the vote for SMPlayer – I tried VLC and MPlayer, and SMPlayer is just or good or better, plus you don’t need to go hunting down new codecs regularly. IBM has served up Lotus Symphony, which is based on Open Office code. The interface is a bit different from OO – one could say “dumbed-down” a bit, but in some ways much better. LS is to be integrated into the R8 release of Lotus Notes, if that matters to anyone. Finally, I cannot believe that someone seriously wrote that he runs Windows on a Mac so that he can use IE…

-Roland

]]> By: Jan-Helge Fagerström http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-851 Jan-Helge Fagerström Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:04:14 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-851 You have forgot cinepaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/)as an alternative for Photoshop You have forgot cinepaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/)as an alternative for Photoshop

]]> By: jonoh http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-848 jonoh Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:42:34 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-848 this is a handy list of sftwr altrntvz. thanks! these comments would be even more useful if they were attached inline to the software in discussion vs. clumped into one big list at the end. this is a handy list of sftwr altrntvz. thanks!

these comments would be even more useful if they were attached inline to the software in discussion vs. clumped into one big list at the end.

]]> By: Ryan http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-843 Ryan Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:52:12 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-843 You know, I like OSS as much as the next guy, but I have these lists that just say well here's the OSS equivalent of the commercial/proprietary package you used. Have at it. In most cases the alternative is not mature enough, lacks key features or is harder to use and / or has a horrrid user interface. Some laughable examples are: Photoshop -> Gimp Dreamweaver ->NVU Outlook -> Thunderbird And in many cases if an end user dare mail the list and ask for a feature they are flamed because "we're making this software for free here, buddy, like it or lump it." "You got the source, just hack it to do what you want." You know, I like OSS as much as the next guy, but I have these lists that just say well here’s the OSS equivalent of the commercial/proprietary package you used. Have at it. In most cases the alternative is not mature enough, lacks key features or is harder to use and / or has a horrrid user interface.

Some laughable examples are:
Photoshop -> Gimp
Dreamweaver ->NVU
Outlook -> Thunderbird

And in many cases if an end user dare mail the list and ask for a feature they are flamed because “we’re making this software for free here, buddy, like it or lump it.” “You got the source, just hack it to do what you want.”

]]> By: Technical Writing Geek http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-841 Technical Writing Geek Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:24:05 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-841 I'm currently trying out InfraRecorder to replace Nero. This seems a viable contender as well. I'm not sure OpenOffice and DocBook are ready to replace their venerable alternatives. Some things are still done better by the originals. I’m currently trying out InfraRecorder to replace Nero. This seems a viable contender as well.

I’m not sure OpenOffice and DocBook are ready to replace their venerable alternatives. Some things are still done better by the originals.

]]> By: Taroogs http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/comment-page-4/#comment-839 Taroogs Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:12:11 +0000 http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/#comment-839 i'm using only 6 of the 50 open source software listed here, but out of the 6 is the top 3 (Ubuntu, Firefox and OpenOffice)... so far, these are enough for me :-) i’m using only 6 of the 50 open source software listed here, but out of the 6 is the top 3 (Ubuntu, Firefox and OpenOffice)… so far, these are enough for me :-)

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