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Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the aim to expand the marketshare of a "premium" product. Popular examples of closed-source freeware include Adobe Reader, Free Studio and Skype.
This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software ; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source . [ 1 ]
The SELinux project at the United States National Security Agency is an example of a federally funded free-software project. Proprietary software, on the other hand, tends to use a different business model, where a customer of the proprietary application pays a fee for a license to legally access and use it.
All web applications, both traditional and Web 2.0, are operated by software running somewhere. This is a list of free software which can be used to run alternative web applications. Also listed are similar proprietary web applications that users may be familiar with. Most of this software is server-side software, often running on a web server.
Command line software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files ImageMagick Studio LLC 1990: 7.1.1-43 [16] 2024-12-22 Free ImageMagick: iPhoto* Image organizer and basic editor for macOS; replaced by Photos: Apple Inc. 2002: 9.6 Proprietary: IrfanView: Image and video viewer with basic editing functions Irfan Skiljan 1996 ...
Category for free and open-source software that runs exclusively on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Free and open-source software portal See also: Category:macOS-only free software and Category:Linux-only free software
The Free Software Directory (FSD) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It catalogs free software that runs under free operating systems —particularly GNU and Linux . The cataloged projects are often able to run in several other operating systems.
Freeware is proprietary software distributed at no cost. This category should not be confused with free software . The main article for this category is Freeware .