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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by squarefoot »

bhauer wrote: post #156

* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…

"High-performance lightweight desktop email clients"

https://www.claws-mail.org/

Don't dismiss it because of the lack of bells and whistles on its web page, it runs circles around everything else. Outlook mail folders also can be imported through an external utility. Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and reportedly can be built on MacOSX.

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by scottlocklin »

I'd pay for a copy of Macsyma. Not the open source Maxima version, which is based on its development stage in 1982. The latter is all right, but Macsyma was extremely good.

I can still buy a copy ... for WinXP... http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Macsyma-1.htm

For a while you couldn't even get that. Macsyma was one of those things where proprietary software can end tragically.

Otherwise, I'd pay for a J compiler that could make fast tree structures, but that never existed, and the market is probably 1.

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by daveFNbuck »

IAmEveryone wrote: post #365
daveFNbuck wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a neighborhood along my drive home that Waze will often try to navigate through to save a few minutes of driving. This rarely actually saves the time it claims, and is disruptive enough to people living in the neighborhood that entrances to the neighborhood now have signs excluding non-local traffic from entering. Waze still tries to navigate me through this neighborhood all the time. It makes the app nearly…

I believe the entire use case you present was already acknowledged in the comment you are replying to, I. e. the “easy interface” to “exclude certain routes”.

The comment I was replying said that the functionality might be useful. This does not acknowledge any particular use case for the functionality, and leaves open the possibility that it might not be useful. Someone who isn't sure whether this functionality has legitimate uses or not probably isn't aware of what the legitimate uses are.

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by dang »

zmix wrote: post #459
zmix wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'd give you an honest answer, I'd be downvoted to hell ;-)

See?

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