Certainly useful…although it makes little judgement on the quality of the applications. That is up to you.
Open Source Alternatives
We are always looking for free and open-source alternatives to software that we would rather not pay for. Since keeping track of such programs is hard…we recently located Osalt.com…Open Source as Alternatives. Given a common piece of software, ie Photoshop…it will produce a lost of alternatives…ie GIMP.