What is some paid software that has been completely eclipsed by a free alternative?
Compilers. Nobody is retarded enough to use a proprietary compiler.
OBS has killed all those jewish screen capture programs.
linux has destroyed winblows
>>53056606
Windows
>>53056636
except icc, which is arguably the best C++ compiler around.
libre office
>>53056606
Practically every web server stack. Also kinda most DB stacks.
Practically every programming language standard library is now open sauce, too.
Winrar by 7zip
iOS got cucked by Android
>>53056606
IE by firefox
ECLIPSE
>>53057915
By what though? Isn't Eclipse free anyway?
>>53057931
just bc the original is most used dont mean someone will try to make money
http://faq.programmerworld.net/programming/best-java-ide-review.html
>>53057176
EPIC MENE
>>53057982
Except it's true
Linux runs on more devices than Windows and osx combined
Get very rekt
>>53058037
NICE XD
>>53056606
Every paid web browser.
Every paid media player.
Every paid text editor.
Every paid archive tool.
Every paid optical media burner/ripper.
Every paid mail server except Exchange, which only survives because of the things it does that aren't strictly MTA territory.
Every paid mail client.
Every paid IRC client.
Basically everything except games, office suites, and niche professional software is dominated by gratis software, which is also often libre.
>>53057226
nigga, you don't even believe that bullshit yourself.
>>53058088
aye but i do use libre office.
why bother getting office when i can do that instead?
>>53058088
true senpai, everyone knows google docs is the most popular word processor
Nero Burning Room is dead
>>53058312
....is it really??
i'm sad as fuck if it is.
so many years of burning cd's man.....
>>53058394
Well, it's alive, but have you seen anyone using it anymore?
http://www.nero.com/eng/
>>53058409
i think the last time i used nero it was for burning an iso.
UNIX.
>GNU/Linux
>{Free,Net,Open,DragonFly }BSD
>Illumos
>>53057915
Literally nobody outside of college uses Eclipse
>>53056606
Windows
photoshop
By gimp
>>53058451
Spotted the undergrad
>>53058451
Lots of folks in embedded use it because every goddamn piece of shit moron hardware vendor makes eclipse plugins then mostly ties all of their binary blobs and configurability to using their shitty crashy plugin on a decade old version of eclipse with some shitty port of gcc3.2
>>53058259
Office 2000 is a better suite than Libre Office.
Shit... Office 97 is better.
>>53058923
Office 2003 trumps all, it just needs compatibility with the new file formats.
>>53058934
that's actually the version I use. The 2007 format compatibility pack does work with 2000 and Office XP too.
I see no good reason to upgrade past 2003, it's just that good.
ffmpeg
>>53056606
iOS BTFO by Android
>>53057268
Except people still use cracked winrar because 7zip is fucking horrible and they don't know about other zlib based alternatives.
>>53057961
How old is this shit? JetBrains provides community editions for several years already.
>>53061104
Why would you bother with a cracked version, when you can use winrar for free as long as you indulge a 1 second pop-up when you start the program?
>>53061165
Why even that man
I mean 7z is free, and does everything winrar does and more.
And yet people still prefer winrar
>>53061165
I don't like pop-ups. They killed my boner.
>>53061189
a bunch of people i know did a group buy because "LOL WINRAR SO NOSTALGIC xD WHO EVER ACUALLY BOUGHT IT"
>>53058074
this
everything most people use is free
there's basically no money in mass consumption software for PCs
>>53058542
This to be honest
Or if they wanna get fancy, they'll take the eclipse source, combine it with gcc, customize it a little, and sell it for $800 as the only official solution for programming their piece of shit microcontroller
>>53061237
That's probably the real reason the media is pushing the "post-PC era" meme so hard. It's still possible to sell a five dollar fart button on iOS and Android.
>>53057195
right, arguably
>>53058451
>Literally
you keep using that word
>>53058074
Most people who actually use mail clients use Outlook, and those who don't, just use browser.
>>53061316
Why can't free apps replace everything on Android like they did on PCs?
>>53061361
Appstores get a subscription fee from publishers. So freeware is not interesting at all for any publisher unless they rely on ads for income.
>>53061393
You don't have to publish your windows app on microsoft store to deliver it to users.
You don't have to publish your android app on google play to deliver it to users.
>>53061488
What about Ubuntu phones?
>>53061511
Sorry, I don't use GNU/Windows.
>>53061488
Do you really think a majority of smartphone and tablet users install their software manually? Unless it's for installing cracked packages, I don't see why they wouldn't. Apple, Microsoft and Google managed to convince software editors that there is no other way to lure such a broad group of customers. Editors are willing to pay the price, but this kinda exclude any open-source project from this market. Anyway, there are not that many open-source projects for mobile platforms anyway, compared to PC.
>>53057487
you mean IE by netscape
Also VLC unless people still run windows media player
IIS by apache and nginx
every simple editor by notepad++
>>53061610
Android itself uses a lot of permissive OSS licenses. And f-droid has a fairly big repo. But there could be more. Fuck all current mobile OS though. Ubuntu touch could turn out good.
>>53061538
>comparing mostly free software to M$
>>53061393
how much do you have to pay for them to host your app? why can't it be crowd-sourced?
>>53058074
True. If Linux had direct competitor for office suite (Libre is decent but still lacks in some areas) and AutoCAD products I would never look at Wangblows.
Seriously, why isn't this a thing on /g/?
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone
Photoshop - replaced by GIMP
All illustration software - BTFO by Krita
Chrome - completely replaced by Firefox
>>53061923
>Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition
>>53062108
The next(?) generation of Ubuntu phones will be desktop + phone in one device.
>>53056606
iOS, by Android
>>53061876
Have you tried Libreoffice 5.1 yet? It's pretty damn nice.
>>53062205
Google has slowly but steadily been making less and less of Android open source.
>>53062222
That's because Google fucked up the licensing of Android. It should have been GPLv3.
>suddenly locked bootloaders are license violations
>no more proprietary OEM skins
>>53056606
Diablo 3
>>53062245
Path of Exile is not free
Can someone explain the origin of that hand meme? Who's hand is that?
It's the hand of our tripfriend Th !e.FaLconO6
This is the original picture
>>53062276
At this point I think Quake 3 has been eclipsed by pretty much every single open source wannabe that came after it. Anyone still playing it or its proprietary derivations is doing so just for nostalgia or autism.
RAMDisk has been completely blown the fuck out by SoftPerfect Ramdisk, which is free for individuals to use, if not corporations.
winamp sucks compared to any number of free alternatives now
VLC really is better than windows media player.
Irfanview is better than whatever the name of the abomination is that windows uses
gparted probably the best partition editor I know.
>>53058259
Libre is alright if you don't want to buy office, but in no other way is it better.
>>53062324
That's just gratis, not free as in freedom
>>53062362
It's free as in free beer :√)
>>53062352
>VLC really is better than windows media player.
Top kek
>>53062397
It is
>>53062352
>>53062397
He means windows media player, not mpc-hc, which is correct, stock windows media player is fucking dogshit and about the only thing VLC can beat. I don't really know if you can consider windows media player paid though since it comes free with OS that you pay for.
>>53062287
3D version of this.
>>53056606
XFree86 by xorg
OSS by ALSA
yo mama
>>53056651
This, Jim is a cool guy.
>>53056636
gcc was forced by clang to accept proprietary plugins to stay relevant. not really free.
Paid != nonfree as in liberty.
You can pay for free software too.
>>53057982
in every meaningful way, yes
widespread pleb support is not "meaningful"
>>53063584
Ardour is great.
>>53058088
>implying StarOffice/Oracle Open Office wasn't killed by LibreOffice
Also LibreOffice and Apache Open Office both have better compatibility between different versions of MS Office, than MS Office itself does.
>>53057176
>>53057185
2.54% estimated of home computers run Linux. Totally eclipsed Windows.
>>53057226
No company in the world is not using MS Excel. Just because all of your college boyfriends use it or Google Docs doesn't mean it has eclipsed MS Office.
>>53058466
Very funny. And Hollywood CGI movies uses Blender xD
>>53065948
>Very funny. And Hollywood CGI movies uses Blender xD
>Ignoring what pixar says about blender, >ignoring that blender has software made by pixar included
>>53065948
People spend well over most of their time on a device that runs Linux - Android smartphones.
Those are now the primary computers for personal use in the widest sense.
>>53056606
internet exporer.
microsoft windows
osx
>>53065774
Open Office is still available, hardly "killed"
and "Libre Office" is still a stupid name.
>>53063182
>This is what freetards ACTUALLY believe.
When will you cucks finally accept that restriction-less software, e.g., llvm, is infinitely more free than anything GPL-related will ever hope to be? When will you cucks finally see that it's literal communism?
>>53062315
Never had a mac, does it really has that retarded dock visible all the time?
>>53068770
Apache Open Office exists. Oracle Open Office doesn't.
>>53069709
Also, Apache Open Office is only barely alive. It has very few developers, and rarely gets any significant updates.
>>53058074
the fuck? free as in freedom, not free as in free beer
>>53058037
Jimmy did you take your pills today?
