Free your digital life with Open Source Apps

[vdoor]

Did you know that there are now Open Source communities who provide freeware of almost any application or utility most of us use under Windows, and we either pay for or bypass its licensing protocols. If you "Google" around with "Open Source" as a key word you'll get as much as millions of these free alternatives, starting from the Operating system itself down to as little as some "Post It" utilities. Here are some links to start with your journey of the emerging open source world, and believe my experience, they produce as high quality outputs as the non-free apps, hope you'll enjoy it:

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[mkhurram79]

can u explain the philosophy of open source?

[vdoor]

Quoted from Wikipedia:
"Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials—typically, their source code. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology. Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of a public, worldwide, computer-network system called the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. Subsequently, a new, three-word phrase "open source software" was born to describe the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created".

I also came a cross a thread in this forum "

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[mkhurram79]

what are the advantages of open source wares?

[vdoor]

Let's take an example of one famous "Open Source" OS, Linux:

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[mokhtar]

Well Done
This idea is really good, i hope change soon to open source.

[f81aa]

vdoor, thank you

[susan123]

very nice idea i like it.

[thomasharris11]

We've got multiple e-mail accounts, social networks, media streams, blogs, websites, electronic calendars, instant messages, phone contacts, online bills, passwords coming out of our ears and screen after screen after screen of computer stuff to back up, share and sync.

That doesn't include the virtual reams floating in the ether, enough to fill the Library of Congress more than 40,000 times, said Douglas C. Merrill, former chief information officer for Google, Ph.D. in cognitive science and dude who wants to help us better manage our digital clutter.

"That's 32 feet of books for every man, woman and child in America. We're drowning in information," said Merrill, who nearly wrecked his health helping to manage the details of taking Google public.

Merrill, once an information scientist at the Rand Corp., struggled with dyslexia as a kid, so de-cluttering — digital and otherwise — is a huge priority for him, so much that he's written a book on the subject with James Martin, "Getting Organized in the Google Era."

regards

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[princepatel]

Well, not trying to be a smart ass here or anything, but if you'll check my original post you will see my objections to Teamviewer. You are right about it being a good program, but in concept only. It just doesn't work for me.

[GillDoreen]

I usually use

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[surgeArrester]

Others use *******

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