{"id":116,"date":"2011-02-23T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T00:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2015-12-25T00:13:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T18:43:33","slug":"open-source-softwares-top-alternatives-for-proprietary-softwares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itechgenie.com\/myblog\/2011\/02\/open-source-softwares-top-alternatives-for-proprietary-softwares\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Softwares – Top alternatives for proprietary softwares"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open source software is software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Open source code evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers as well as very large companies.\u00a0Click Here<\/a> to learn more about Open Source Softwares.<\/p>\n

The Open Source softwares get developed rapidly as the development involves developers from individual to lage companies. Thus the Open Source softwares are gaining phase and becoming a competitive products to that of the costly and proprietary softwares in the market. Here is a collection of softwares that stand as the great alternatives to the Proprietary gaints.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/td>\nFamous Proprietary Programs<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nOpen Source Alternatives<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nDownload URL<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOperating Systems <\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nMicrosoft Windows Operating Systems<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nLinux Distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva <\/span>etc.), Google Chrome OS, OpenSolaris, and more<\/a>.<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nUbuntu<\/a>, Fedora<\/a>, Mandriva<\/a>, Chrome OS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nOffice Suites and Tools<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nMicrosoft Office Suite, Star Office<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nOpenOffice, LibreOffice, KOffice, GNOME Office, Feng Office<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nOpenOffice<\/a>, LibreOffice<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nAdobe PDF<\/td>\nEvince, Foxit Reader, Sumatra PDF<\/td>\nEvince<\/a>, Foxit Reader<\/a>, Sumatra PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\nMactopia<\/td>\nNeoOffice<\/td>\nNeoOffice<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\nMathWorks MATLAB<\/td>\nScilab<\/td>\nScilab<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nMicrosoft Visio<\/td>\nDia, ArgoUM, StarUML<\/td>\nDia<\/a>, ArgoUM<\/a>, StarUML<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.<\/td>\nAdobe Acrobat<\/td>\nPDFCreator, OpenOffice<\/td>\nPDFCreator<\/a>, OpenOffice<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nProduction and Development Tools<\/span> <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\nAdobe Photoshop<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nPaint.Net, Gimp, GimpShop, Inkscape<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\nPaint.Net<\/a>, GIMP<\/a>, GIMPShop<\/a>, Inkscape<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.<\/td>\nAutoCAD<\/td>\nArchimedes<\/td>\nArchimedes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.<\/td>\nAdobe Dreamweaver<\/td>\nNVU (now KompoZer), BigFish, Amaya<\/td>\nKompoZer<\/a>, Last Official Release of NVU<\/a>, BigFish<\/a>, Amaya<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12.<\/td>\nAdobe Flash<\/td>\nOpenLaszlo, Synfig<\/td>\nAdobe Flex<\/a>, OpenLaszlo<\/a>, Synfig<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13.<\/td>\nUltraEdit-32, EditPlus<\/td>\nNotepad++, SciTE, jEdit<\/td>\nNotepad++<\/a>, SciTE<\/a>, jEdit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.<\/td>\nTruSpace,
\nAutodesk 3ds Max<\/td>\n		Blender<\/td>\nBlender<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15.<\/td>\nMicrosoft Project<\/td>\nOpen Workbench<\/td>\nOpen Workbench<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Open source software is software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Open source code evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers as well as very large companies.\u00a0Click Here to learn more … <\/p>\n

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