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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.
Hybrid Note-taking software and outliner Windows Contacts: Windows Commercial Included with Windows 7, 8 and 10 Wrike: Web Commercial Yahoo! Calendar: Web Freeware: Yojimbo: macOS Commercial "Personal information manager" Zim: Cross-platform GPL Graphical text editor designed to maintain a collection of locally stored wiki-pages. SuperMemo: Windows
This category contains operating systems that are described as "free software" or "open-source software". There are multiple licenses possible for both types; licenses that specify what can and cannot be done with the software.
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.
This is a list of notable software packages which were published as free and open-source software, or into the public domain, but were made proprietary software, or otherwise switched to a license (including source-available licenses) that is not considered to be free and open source.