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Revision as of 16:26, 11 January 2017
Antifeatures are flags applied to applications to warn of issues that may be undesirable from the user's perspective. Frequently it is behavior that benefits the developer, but that the end user of the software would prefer not to be there.
The pages of applications which have antifeatures include a prominent warning added to the page source.
Discussion is happening on the talk page and mailing list, and Dev for work in progress. Currently we need to merge this page from Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) and software categories.
- Listed software tagged with Antifeature: 26
- Alphabetic list
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Blacklisted
This software is not part of the Free Software Directory except to warn against using it. It is not free software or includes severe malware and many people have been lead to believe it is ethical free software. Once there is no longer a popular misconception about this fact, it's page will be deleted like any software which does not meet the requirements.
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Bait and surrender
There are two versions of this software, one free and one proprietary. The proprietary version may have more features, but the free software version is still useful. Users should be careful to use only the free software version of the package, to avoid surrendering their freedom.
1 listed:
| License | Version identifier | Version date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LanguageTool | LGPLv2.1orlater |
Closed documentation
Some software is free but the primary documentation (such as the user guide) and other important resources (e.g. forums, news) are inaccessible or hosted in an exclusive private walled-garden or otherwise for which:
- reading the documentation requires non-free software to execute,
- e.g. non-free javascript,
- e.g. the documentation exists exclusively in a proprietary format for which no free tools exists to read it,
- the use of free tools to access the documentation is hindered (e.g. text-based browsers like lynx and w3m cannot reach the HTML containing or linking to the user guide [graphical captchas will do this]),
- or some group of people is blocked or hindered from accessing the server that hosts the documentation (e.g. by captchas that give Tor users unequal treatment).
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Delayed upstream forks
Software that is not a straight fork; instead, they are parallel efforts that works closely with and re-bases in synchronization on the latest base software as the upstream supplier.
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Free fork needed!
The developer has betrayed the community by moving to a proprietary license, but people can continue to use and fork the last free version.
1 listed:
| License | Version identifier | Version date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SourceForge | GPLv2orlater |
Superseded
The software is no longer maintained and has been superseded by another program based on it.
1 listed:
| License | Version identifier | Version date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| QtiPlot | Other |
Name uses a word to avoid: "Linux System"
There are a number of words and phrases that we recommend avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that we disagree with, and we hope you disagree with it too.
When considering which free software to use, this anti-feature is less problematic compared to the others so it displayed less prominently in yellow.
Linux is the name of the kernel that Linus Torvalds developed starting in 1991. The operating system in which Linux is used is basically GNU with Linux added. To call the whole system “Linux” is both unfair and confusing. Please call the complete system GNU/Linux, both to give the GNU Project credit and to distinguish the whole system from the kernel alone.
This tag is reserved for obvious and unambiguous references to the GNU/Linux operating system, not the Linux kernel. This unambiguity includes the context of it's homepage and documentation. Note, software which depends on Linux kernel system calls or features usually do not have unambiguous references in their name.
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Search the FSD for linux
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The copyright and license notices on this page only apply to the text on this page. Any software or copyright-licenses or other similar notices described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution or license text itself.