Sunday, May 07, 2006
Cannot Afford Software – you don’t have to disadvantaged open source will help!
Webopedia - Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations.
Proprietary software costs over the past few years have ballooned out almost to point where many people on limited incomes cannot afford to purchase the software and sometimes then they tend to turn to piracy to utilize their software. Piracy accounts for over 26% of all propriety created software use in Australia and America, it annoys the software companies that piracy exists and they claim it’s the piracy that is driving prices up and the pirates and people using pirated software claim if the costs of software were cheaper then people would buy software.
Open Source Software though is providing break through options for people that require software but cannot afford the major costs of property software. The good news is that Open Source software which a lot of people think is Linux only is not linux only there is plenty of windows software available free of charge I have listed these below
Web Browser – http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Email Client - http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Office Suite - http://www.openoffice.org/
Graphics Package - http://www.gimp.org/
CD Burning - http://www.geoshock.com/cdrtools/
File Sharing - http://www.shareaza.com/
FTP Client - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Instant Message Client - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
VOIP PABX http://www.asteriskwin32.com/
VOIP Clients - http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipXphone/
IRC Client - http://www.savirc.com/
Anti spam - http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/
Media Player - ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/
Website download copier - http://www.httrack.com/
Web editor & Application Suite - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Download client - http://francis.dupont.free.fr/truedownloader/
Webcam software - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
There are also often a lot of freeware or software sponsored by advertising these also help you get your computer going with software applications that will allow you to be just as productive as the proprietary software you might spend 600 dollars easily on.
Proprietary software costs over the past few years have ballooned out almost to point where many people on limited incomes cannot afford to purchase the software and sometimes then they tend to turn to piracy to utilize their software. Piracy accounts for over 26% of all propriety created software use in Australia and America, it annoys the software companies that piracy exists and they claim it’s the piracy that is driving prices up and the pirates and people using pirated software claim if the costs of software were cheaper then people would buy software.
Open Source Software though is providing break through options for people that require software but cannot afford the major costs of property software. The good news is that Open Source software which a lot of people think is Linux only is not linux only there is plenty of windows software available free of charge I have listed these below
Web Browser – http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Email Client - http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Office Suite - http://www.openoffice.org/
Graphics Package - http://www.gimp.org/
CD Burning - http://www.geoshock.com/cdrtools/
File Sharing - http://www.shareaza.com/
FTP Client - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Instant Message Client - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
VOIP PABX http://www.asteriskwin32.com/
VOIP Clients - http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipXphone/
IRC Client - http://www.savirc.com/
Anti spam - http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/
Media Player - ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/
Website download copier - http://www.httrack.com/
Web editor & Application Suite - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Download client - http://francis.dupont.free.fr/truedownloader/
Webcam software - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
There are also often a lot of freeware or software sponsored by advertising these also help you get your computer going with software applications that will allow you to be just as productive as the proprietary software you might spend 600 dollars easily on.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 3:28 AM 
