Is there anything that proprietary software can do and has no open alternative?

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  • warzone2100

    Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

  • Also Doom itself and various other ID games are fully open source. In addition there is another game, Warzone2100 was re-released as open source by the developers as well. I'm sure there are more games like these, but this all that comes to the top of my mind.

  • ArxLibertatis

    Cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • julius

    An open source re-implementation of Caesar III

  • Julius, an open source faithful re-implementation of Caesar 3, including the bugs people actually use and/or rely on to do stuff in their city

  • augustus

    An open source re-implementation of Caesar III

  • Augustus, a fork of Julius, that seeks to fix the bugs, add improvements from the later Impression games like roadblocks, and also extend it with new gameplay, new buildings, and all limits removed

  • OpenRA

    Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

  • OpenRA is an open re-implmentation of Red Alert 2 I believe :D

  • olive

    Free open-source non-linear video editor

  • Also, keep an eye on https://olivevideoeditor.org/ for video editing. It is still in Beta, but looks very promising.

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