How many of us cannot afford to buy the expensive word processor or the image editing software?
In this age of internet there is a solution for every digital problem.
Open Source Software - This a classification or license under with certain software are released. This means that the software is free to use and be developed further by anyone who is interested.
This means a lot to everyone, imagine the best word processing software on the market, now imagine a similar word processing software created by eager developers all over the world and released as open source. This open source word processor would keep getting better everyday, with ideas pouring from everyone who has a feature to be incorporated.
There is already Open Office, the open source office solution, which includes among other tools a word processor that is quite competitive to any commercial word processor. There is also GIMP, an open source image editing software. There are also operating systems, databases, media players, browsers, email clients, anti viruses and even games.
The open source ideology is well embraced by the software industry. As more an more open source alternatives are being made available for commercial software, what would be the state of the major software companies.
Checkout the huge list of open source software available on the internet, you might no longer need that expensive software that you use.
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