Replacing Proprietary Softawre w/Open Source
Summary from The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy and Their Open Source Alternatives - WHDb

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Basics

  1. Windows Vista OS to Ubuntu
  2. Internet Explorer Browser to Firefox (add-ons)

Office Suites

  1. Microsoft Office to OpenOffice
  2. Mactopia to NeoOffice

Office Tools

  1. MathWorks MATLAB to Scilab
  2. Microsoft Access to Kexi
  3. Microsoft Word to OpenOffice Writer
  4. Microsoft Excel to OpenOffice Calc
  5. Microsoft Visio to Dia

Productivity

  1. Blackboard to Moodle
  2. Box to Cabos
  3. Microsoft Project to Open Workbench
  4. Mindjet to FreeMind

Graphic Programs

  1. Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape
  2. Adobe PhotoShop to GIMP
  3. Adobe Premiere to Avidemux
  4. AutoCAD to Archimedes
  5. Microsoft PowerPoint to OpenOffice Impress
  6. Microsoft Paint to Tux Paint
  7. TruSpace to Blender

Web Editors

  1. Adobe GoLive CS2 to Mozilla SeaMonkey Add-ons? Try Scribefire
  2. Adobe Dreamweaver to NVU
  3. Macromedia Flash Professional to OpenLaszlo
  4. Microsoft Frontpage to Bluefish  Want more editors?
  5. Windows Notepad to ConTEXT
  6. Altova XMLSpy to XML Copy Editor

Publishing

  1. Adobe Acrobat to PDFCreator
  2. Adobe Framemaker to DocBook
  3. Microsoft Publisher to Scribus Scribus

Communications

  1. AIM to Pidgin
  2. FeedDemon to RSS Bandit
  3. Microsoft MSN Messenger to aMSN
  4. Microsoft Outlook to Thunderbird, Lightning w/ Sunbird
  5. Skype to Wengophone & WengoPhone

Media

  1. iTunes to Songbird
  2. Nero Burning Rom to K3b
  3. Quicktime to Darwin Streaming Server
  4. TiVo Desktop to Galleon.tv
  5. Windows Media Player to Miro

Utilities

  1. CuteFTP to Filezilla
  2. iBackup to ZManda
  3. Norton Ghost to Partition Image (for Linux) or Ghost for Unix (G4U) for Windows or Unix users see SystemRescueCd
  4. Rational Purify to Valgrind
  5. WinZip to 7-Zip

Security

  1. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal to Winpooch
  2. McAfee VirusScan to ClamWin
  3. Norton Personal Firewall to WIPFW

Financial

  1. Authorize.net to OpenSSL
  2. Microsoft Money (Plus) to TurboCash
  3. Quickbooks to Compiere

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