Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Free Software Replacements

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The result of the debate was no consensus to delete -- Francs2000 | Talk 12:26, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Free Software Replacements
Wikipedia is not a soapbox, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Darrien 13:59, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Free Software. Provides useful information about current developments in the field.-Poli (talk &bull; contribs) 14:40, 2005 July 23 (UTC)
 * Merge, as suggested by Poli. --Joel7687 15:18, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Replace Outlook with a PHP-based webmail script?  HA!  I do not feel the Free Software article would be enhanced by the inclusion of these suggestions. Thatdog 19:46, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, do not merge. I can bet Free Software article has enough of work of maintenance to deal with such crap information as presented here. Pavel Vozenilek 23:00, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with Thatdog that this list is not particularly useful. At best it is one user's POV on what software can replace what other software. &mdash; mendel &#9742; 23:08, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Free software, but only the sterile listing, not the what-it-might replace stuff. -Splash 23:15, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. GPLcruft.  Almafeta 01:20, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge anything useful to Free software. JamesBurns 03:59, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Free software, under neutral article part ANALOGIES, or COMAPRISION because it's usefull and NPOV to have alternatives (as we have article Comparison of text editors under Category:Software comparison).
 * Delete. The creator mixed up freeware with free software. --minghong 04:06, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with Minghong, and I'd also note that we would not have an article proprietary software replacements so it is POV to have this one.  And I say that as a very happy Gentoo user.  Pakaran 04:15, 2 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.