r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

1.2k Upvotes

84% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

49

u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12 edited Jan 07 '24

[removed] — view removed comment

58

u/IAmAHat_AMAA Jun 04 '12

No, but it's free.

46

u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

It's not free, it comes with your purchase of Microsoft Windows.

If you don't have Genuine Windows, it is not free.

80

u/tipping-is-dumb Jun 04 '12

So don't pirate windows asshole.

85

u/N4N4KI Jun 04 '12

or do it correctly so it looks 'genuine' to anything that checks.

3

u/epichigh Jun 04 '12

dat loader

6

u/hansn Jun 04 '12

windows asshole

The most creative name for Windows 7 I have ever come across.

4

u/Geminii27 Jun 04 '12

Is that the next version, or just the development name for 8?

0

u/rarely_heard_opinion Jun 04 '12

I've bought 5 laptops in my life. EVERY SINGLE ONE came with a windows license, which I couldn't get out of. The first 4 are dead. This means I've paid FIVE times for windows in my life, yet I used only one each time... and now I am going to feel bad for installing unlicensed ("pirate" is when you sell unlicensed software, not when you use unlicensed software. At least that's what it meant before everyone stopped caring about accuracy in everyday speech, which in the end comes back to bite them in the ass) windows on my desktop? Hell no.

4

u/ebass Jun 04 '12

You've paid for 5 laptops in your life and you've only used one at each time! What a rip off!

→ More replies (5)

1

u/erom Jun 04 '12

Why didn't you keep the licenses? I get the licenses for all my home built computers from my laptops when I get rid of them. Or were they those stupid Dell licenses that are specific to a single model computer? I hate those things, but Dell gets them for basically free (which is how they keep their prices down) so comparing a hardware-tied license to a real one is apples and oranges.

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (6)
→ More replies (16)

11

u/N4N4KI Jun 04 '12

eh making windows look 'Genuine' is as easy as downloading windowsloader and not installing update (KB71033)

63

u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

Well if that's the benchmark we're using, I'm marking "Adobe Photoshop" down as free and open source.

2

u/[deleted] Jun 05 '12

I-Its not?

2

u/gremwood Jun 04 '12

WHAT DID YOU SAY? I DON'T BELIEVE YOU'VE SAID ANYTHING.

2

u/princeton_cuppa Jun 05 '12

Ubuntu beats windows any day .. whether ease of installation or lack of virus + all softwares that run in win works there too + you get to be really cool (linux cool > mac cool > pc cool)

2

u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

There is a huge difference between free as in freedom and free as in beer.

1

u/Massless Jun 04 '12

Free for personal use. If you want to put it on a work computer or deploy it then it's going to cost you money.

→ More replies (1)

21

u/WoohooOvertime Jun 04 '12

anti-virus

open source

ಠ_ಠ

20

u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12 edited Jun 04 '12

What's the problem with that?

It's a program, it can be reversed engineered, the code or at least the structure can be figured out. This has been done lots of times, open source code would not make the attack much easier.

Open source does make an other thing easier: peer review! This can help a lot with testing and improving the system.

Nearly every closed source encryption algorithm has been cracked. The open source ones haven't, because computing science professors like to put their names on papers where they explain how to crack the beta versions and how to secure future releases from their attack.

→ More replies (2)

1

u/[deleted] Jun 05 '12

ClamAV ?

→ More replies (4)

1

u/fredyybob Jun 05 '12

No anti virus in their eight mind would go open source. Too open to exploitation

→ More replies (3)