Talk:Free Software Replacements

This article was recently nominated for deletion but kept by default of no consensus being reached. The archived discussion can be found at Votes for deletion/Free Software Replacements -- Francs2000 | Talk 12:26, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Please vote for deleting this article
The existence of this article is already a POV: why "replacement"? What to "replace" what? The "replacement" should be a many-to-many mapping, not one-to-many. We already got a rather POV list of open-source software packages. I don't think we need more. --minghong 16:53, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Let's NOT merge this into Free Software. Free_software is an important page, appropriate for an encyclopedia. This page is useful info, but it's not the kind of info that belongs in an encyclopedia, and I know it can be found elsewhere, e.g. at http://kmfms.com /me votes: Let's delete. (or is there another way to vote?) A redirect to list of open-source software packages would be fine (not that that page sounds like something appropriate for an encyclopaedia either (osdir & freshmeat have that category covered, no?  Links to them from pages such as Free_software sounds like a bettter idea.)

It is important to keep this page, because the 'Open Source' commercial agenda is steadily overwriting the community, non-proprietary values of Free Software, exploitatively. FreeNix for all! :-)