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Discussion on: List of top Open Source alternatives to popular products.

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Fayaz Ahmed

I guess so, but sometimes you need to build something on top of these OSS projects, say a client has a requirement of something like Google Drive for his organization, you dont have to build it from scratch, just build on top of these projects.

I recently read a post by @ben on how someone built a forum/blogging platform on top of dev.to as it is open source. That is a great example actually.

But for individuals, its best to use the free versions of these proprietary software.

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Vinay Hegde

In that use-case, yes OSS projects would help save time & effort.