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Quotes: Proprietary Is Not Evil, But Open Source Is Way To Go

2008-05-19 20:25:31 by Editor in Linux and Open Source Blog
 
...proprietary software. Its not evil or immoral, it just doesnt matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and Im willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but its not a crusade its just a superior way of working together and generating code Its superior because its a lot more fun and because it makes cooperation...
 
Tags: source, proprietary, proprietary software, silly, silly ndas, solid base, science, previous knowledge, evil
 
 
 
 
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50 Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Apps

2008-02-10 22:08:27 by Zaine Ridling in The Great Software List blog
 
Jimmy Atkinson has done a lot of heavy lifting to compose this list of open source alternatives to proprietary apps. I disagree with some of the choices, but wow, its pretty fantastic
 
Tags: proprietary apps, source alternatives, pretty fantastic, jimmy atkinson, lot, heavy, choices, compose, disagree
 
 
 
 
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Free Alternatives to 10 Popular Commercial Mac Applications (Part 2)

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2008-10-12 16:02:59 by Jackson Chung in MakeUseOf.com
...proprietary codec unlike MP3. Hence, converting songs to and from WMA on a Mac isnt free. For Switchers, this presents as a problem because when using Windows, iTunes recognizes WMA files and plays them without a hiccup. After transferring the iTunes library over to Mac, the songs cant be played unless theyre converted. If you read my...
 
Tags: applications, commercial mac applications, free, free alternatives, application, macs dictionary application, macs, dictionary, gtd applications
 
 
 
 
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Closed above, closed below...

2008-08-04 14:42:34 by John Dowdell in Adobe Blogs
 
...proprietary operating systems, they don't seem to have a problem doing it. And then they had the Guiness record thing for Firefox 3 and you went to the website and it had a flash map to show where people are downloading - so there definitely is a double standard here. And that's after all their claiming that you can do everything in AJAX - so...
 
Tags: proprietary, proprietary service providers, proprietary secrecy, proprietary plugins, proprietary behavioral databases, databases, proprietary social services, web, world wide web
 
 
 
 
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Qt

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2008-01-24 11:31:00 by Aamir Sayid in Quick Softwares
...proprietary commercial license on all supported platforms. The commercial license allows the final application to be licensed under various free software/open source licenses such as the LGPL or the Artistic License, or a proprietary software license Proprietary commercial development requires the commercial license, and, unlike some open...
 
Tags: license, free software license, editions, source editions, source, source software libraries, source applications, qtwindows, license qtwindows
 
 
 
 
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The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?

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2008-06-05 14:00:50 by Nik Cubrilovic in TechCrunch
...proprietary client-side scripting language) and ActiveX (the Microsoft proprietary object container) was just around the corner with the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 in August of 1996 The rest of the story where Microsoft wins, and more importantly, how they won, the browser war is common history. The web had fractured in a big way, with...
 
Tags: web, web platforms, rich web applications, web post, web applications, standard, html5, rich, internet explorer
 
 
 
 
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Scope creep, and the failure of experts

2008-07-16 15:15:42 by John Dowdell in Adobe Blogs
 
...proprietary web" ( Slashdot , Paul Ellis , Molly Holzschlag , Alex Russell , Shelley Powers , OSNews , John Carroll , Steven Clark , more ). There was a subthread of "Don't blame the W3C; blame the browser vendors instead", but that still assumes that there is blame for something to be doled about My bottom line: When people ask "Should we...
 
Tags: web, proprietary web, w3c, w3c risk, w3c risks, risk, world wide web, proprietary, video
 
 
 
 
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KDE

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2007-11-14 08:01:00 by Aamir Sayid in Quick Softwares
...proprietary software. When using the free versions, programs which link to Qt must be released as FOSS (under the GPL or another license permitted by the QPL, such as the BSD or LGPL for example). After the release of Qt under the GPL, the controversy over licensing with the Free Software Foundation ended Some developers of...
 
Tags: free software, free software license, free software project, free software desktop, kde major version, major, license, free, major kde applications
 
 
 
 
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Asterisk (PBX)

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2008-01-15 00:56:00 by Aamir Sayid in Quick Softwares
...proprietary software license as to allow proprietary/closed and patented code, such as the G.729 codec to work with the system although the G729 codec may work with the free or proprietary versions). However, due to free software/open source nature of the software, hundreds of other programmers have contributed features and functionality and...
 
Tags: asterisk, asterisk gateway interface, interface, asterisk gateway, gui, asterisk-gui, actions, actions asterisk, asterisk developers
 
 
 
 
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GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons

2008-03-11 17:13:04 by KageSenshi in Shadow Logs
 
...proprietary video drivers installed than with having control of their own computers. After all, the proprietary drivers are available at no cost, just like the ethically free ones, so why not use them, especially when they are technologically more advanced? I've even seen some users castigate Fedora for not providing the proprietary drivers...
 
Tags: free software, free software ideals, free, fedora, love fedora, proprietary drivers, ideals, freedom, software freedom