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Top 50 Proprietary Programs and Their Open Source Alternatives The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives. Not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy, right? Some, like Adobe Photoshop, are superb tools for anyone to use. What makes the real difference between free and proprietary software is the idea that proprietary software comes with boundaries that keeps the user experience confined to … well, being the user. That’s enough to drive any developer crazy. The following sixty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, in other cases still, you’ll learn that some proprietary programs are real gems, but that the open source advocate can replace those gems with equally shiny objects from the open source repertoire. Update January 22, 2013: This article was originally posted February 7, 2008.
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