盗版软件虽然好用, 但是毕竟是一种违法的事情, 不如少作, 不如不作. 实际上目前有大量的商业化软件免费替代产品, 有很多来源于Open Source社区, 还有很多是个人或者公司开发的免费软件. 比如之前推荐的OwlRSS. 这些软件功能不差, 有时候更新也及时, 更Cool的是有些软件的维护人员遍布全球, 随时有更新, 比如Mozilla, FireFox.
有心人Neowin收集了大量的免费软件, 还分类整理了, 我列出了一些感兴趣的类别, 完整的清单自己上去找吧
Neowin’s Freeware Alternative List – Neowin.net
Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition – http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord – http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org – http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot – http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
TreeDBNotes – http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm
Anti-Virus:
a-squared – http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir – http://www.free-av.com/
Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG – http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender – http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin – http://www.clamwin.com/
Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware – http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka – http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder – http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr…r_download.html
Hijackthis – http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware – http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s…re/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy – http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster – http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard – http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol – http://www.winpatrol.com/
Compression / Decompression:
7-zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 – http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow – http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip – http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip – http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc – http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip – http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip – http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX – http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go – http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius – http://www.zipgenius.it/
Image viewers:
Ahaview – http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer – http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview – http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa – http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension – http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView – http://www.slowview.at/
XNView – http://www.xnview.com/
Mail programs:
Foxmail – http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe – http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail – http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail – http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray – http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird – http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/