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OS2 World.Com Bounty System => General Discussion => Topic started by: kim on 2008.02.16, 16:38:40

Title: The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy
Post by: kim on 2008.02.16, 16:38:40
Got this little link to a blog (http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/) that lists 50 different Windows applications and as well suggest a open source equal on the Linux side; guess that a few of them could be an interesting future bounty projects.
Title: Re: The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy
Post by: miturbide on 2008.02.17, 19:12:11
Pidgin (open Source Instant Messaging tool)  will be an interesting asset to be ported to OS/2-eCS.

Just as a comment. I'm amazed on how the open source software development continue to grow. I always like to check this kind of articles and I always found something new.
Title: Re: The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy
Post by: miturbide on 2008.02.17, 19:41:08
oh. Just notice that Pidgin uses the GTK+ Libraries.

So first the GTK+ port (http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14952/71/) need to be completed to port this one. A GTK+ port will open the doors for many other OS/2-eCS ports.