Please do your homework
Before starting a grandiose list like The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives. I don’t get this obsession with round numbers? I find it hard to believe that 50 software packages were checked and they all got better alternatives. Especially after bitting the bullet and trying out Archimedes the replacement for Autocad (btw this is not the defacto tool for architects). Or Authorize.net to OpenSSL I wonder how can you replace one with another? Why not try to compile an end to end usable list?
This is the exact problem with the web, there are so many voices that it is difficult to find real value amongst the noise.
