Everything comes with a price. Except free open source software! Open source refers to something that can be modified because its design is publicly accessed. Therefore, open source software is software whose source code is available for modification by anyone. You may have heard of Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, BitTorent, VLC Media Player, Audacity, etc. These are all FREE tools that everyone should take advantage of! Here is my favorite open source software list:1) Open Office: This is a great alternative to Microsoft Office that handles most of Microsoft Office's productivity tasks from document production to creating full multi-media presentations.
2) VLC Media Player: very simple and powerful media player since it can play most codecs (MPEG-2, DivX, H.254, MKV, WebM, WMW, MP3..)., plays everything (files, discs, webcams...) and runs on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X...).
3) Audacity: a multiplatform audio edittor that can import and export in numerous formats (WAV, FLAC, AU...). It is useful for anyone that needs to manipulate audio.
Of course there's benefits of being a consumer of these tools but what about on the developing side?
Public collaboration. Most open source projects, like Wordpress, are created by a large number of programmers, all working together to create a software package. Also, because it's open source, source code is available to ALL developers that want to contribute.
Go take advantage of these free tools!
I like your post. You seem to be very exited about open source. I also enjoy using open source software and I really like the the processes in which open source software is created in which bright developers from anywhere in the world can participate and contribute just for the self satisfaction of contributing and creating a cool product. As for the class your post seems a bit short I would advice to edit and add some more content. Also, I noticed the text in your most resent post is the same color as your background and not visible. You might already know this and are just playing with the css. I also inserted some css to do some changes in my blog. Anyways I just wanted to let you know in case your weren't aware.
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