We had a discussion on FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) during one of the soft skills sessions in our organization. It was a very informative session on Open Source and it's advantages in the corporate environment etc. After the discussion, one of the colleagues sent an email with the alternative solutions for all the prominent softwares that we use everyday on proprietary operating system.
Anti virus mail gateway:
http://www.bransoft.com/clammail/en/clammail.html
Anti-Virus:
http://www.clamwin.com
Office:
http://www.openoffice.org
MS Visio alternative:
http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net
GIMP (Photoshop alternative):
http://www.plasticbugs.com/blogimg/GIMPshop_0.1beta_Setup.exe
http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/
.NET:
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
http://www.mono-project.com/ASP.NET
http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=34139
Open Source for WIndows:
http://osswin.sourceforge.net
Free Ware for Windows:
http://onlythebestfreeware.com
http://f-spot.org/Main_Page
Desktop Publishing:
http://www.scribus.net
(Thanks to Shine Xavier for the info)
(Image courtesy: MasterNewMedia)
FOSS is great concept. I am running Debian Linux in my home PC which is pretty good for all my day to day activities and entertainment. My wife loves using it for browsing the net and watching movies etc. She says "it never shows a blue screen" :)
In my opinion, one should use the applications which are helping him/her to achieve what he/she wants. If it is a commercial product, please pay for it.
In many cases, I have seen that people does not care when it comes to licenses and software piracy.we show an utter lack of respect to the developers or companies who develop these products.
If you are not finding it easy to pay for a software/operating system, at least try FOSS before jumping into software piracy. :)
Extremely useful list....many thanks for sharing Jo!