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Ask HN: What software do you wish had a good open source alternative?

• joshbaptiste 14y ago
  Lotus Notes
  • hapless 14y ago
    Groupware is still the big unsolved small-business problem in an open source stack. There have been many, many attempts to fix individual pieces of the problem, and a handful of overarching ones, but I'm not sure anyone has nailed it. Client side: Evolution kinda/sorta works, most of the time. (And it doesn't run well on Windows or OSX.) The old Mozilla suite has just exploded -- it now takes three (haphazardly maintained -- versions last a few months at most) applications to manage what it used to do. Server side: open source mail and mailbox servers are among the best, but is there any consensus on the best calendaring ? What clients can even talk to a CALdav server? Outlook can't.
• landyman 14y ago
  Rosetta Stone
  • ryetoasthumor 14y ago
    Check out duolingo.com Translate the web as you learn a language. Disclosure: My professor at CMU runs the company.
    • sontek 14y ago
      duolingo isn't open source, so goes against the question. That being said, duolingo is awesome :)
  • lewispollard 14y ago
    Anki - https://github.com/dae/anki https://github.com/dae/anki It's obviously not as full featured as Rosetta Stone, nor does it come with courses, nor does it use voice recognition - but it does rely on basically the same research into memory and I've had a lot more success using Anki than Rosetta Stone.
• sn0v 14y ago
  iTunes. I know Banshee is an alternative, but it seems to have trouble with syncing my books, for which I need Calibre as well. It would be nice to have an all in one solution that didn't suck as bad as iTunes.
• khein11 14y ago
  GarageBand
• J_Darnley 14y ago
  Winamp. I'm basically looking for player which has separate concepts of a playlist and a media library.