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Top Ten Open Source Projects

arclightfire writes "We recently wrote an article for The Independent listing the top ten open source projects. It was hard getting the list down to ten, but we did; here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge." What would you call your favorite projects? Obviously, this list isn't strictly software projects, so be creative.

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  1. Re:"this list isn't strictly software projects" by incubusnb · · Score: 0, Troll
    you ever read multiple versions of the bible? I assure you, words and passages are completely rewritten from version to version.

    The King James Bible is very different from the American Standard bible, which, despite being in another language, is damn near a complete rewrite of the original bible.

    I'm nowhere near a bible-thumper, but one thing i do know about it, is that the modern bible is written by humans, and changed by humans, regardless who wrote the original version(whom I think where still humans)

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  2. Re:Top... by AxelBoldt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Inkscape is a piece of crap. The other day I tried to add a red arrow to some jpeg, to point out a feature. Standard use case of a vector program, I'd say. After half an hour, I gave up: it was impossible to get the arrow's tip to show up in red. Back to the stone age: drawing the arrow from two paths in gimp...