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FreeAlternatives: project proposal

Thursday 04 January 2007

I have just uploaded a file containing information on a proposed project, FreeAlternatives.

To give you a short primer, the project is about creating a database containing information on FreeSoftware packages which can replace proprietary software. The proposal contains information on how the database could be built, kept up-to-date and extended by the community instead of a small group and still contain valid and approved data.

The proposal is written in plain-text and can be downloaded from here.

Discussion should take place on discussion__at__fsfeurope.org, but you are also welcome to leave your comments here or drop me an email at sp__at__fsfe.org.

This document is in public domain

Comments

many attempts at that out there already

bernhardegger

Saturday 06 January 2007

searching for "linux equivalents windows applications" results in many hits, some of the most promising here (but there's probably dozens more):

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Windows_to_Linux_applications_table_of_equivalents

there's no rating system in place, though, these are just tables

for a comprehensive database, one could include a column with "possible shortcomings", since often an alternative or equivalent has a different set of features; maybe it's also possible to link to another application that is providing the missing features