Top 10 open source apps for Windows, at a glance

August 7, 2009, 09:09 AM —  InfoWorld — 


Where Windows and open source get along just fine

Although there is a rivalry between the proprietary Windows and open source communities, there's also a lot of great open source apps for Windows. InfoWorld picks the 10 best. For the full details on each, see our full story.

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URLs?

Did it not occur to anyone at ITWorld writing this to add the URLs so we can get these programs.

Most are obvious, but some are not; paint.net you get from getpaint.net. Fortunately the people that own paint.net don't have compromised servers feeding malware.
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Get 'em while they're hot!
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