used2be wrote:

"Franz Bestuchev" <franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote in message
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andersir@gmail.com wrote:

Hi..

For many more free software alternatives - please visit Open Source
Alternative - http://www.osalt.com/

Here you can find alternatives to:
http://opensourcealternative.to/photoshop
http://opensourcealternative.to/word

And many others.

Please note that some of the software is only available for Linux (an
open source alternative for windows).

best regards,
Anders Rasmussen
webmaster
Open Source Alternative - www.osalt.com

There ya go USB2, cool site. You click on Visio, for instance, (a
program to let you chart things like computer networks, or management
structures, or your string & can phone line system) and then it shows
the Open Source equivalent.

You could also even more yourself off of Windows onto a "distribution"
of an alternative way to run your computer, like Ubuntu.

But cross that bridge WAY later...deal with the work you need now and
maybe buy software if you have to because you can't spend the deadline
time learning an entirely new program or the free alternative isn't up
to par on the *specific* requirement you have.

Open Source software is a powerful grassroots movement that does some
things AMAZINGLY well. It does some thing 99% of what $500 would get you
sometimes. But then there's some things that the itch you need scratched
is on your OWN behind and nobody out there has the software solution
either free or $ and then you *program it yourself* ;) and be kind and
give it back to the world.

*Don't* make the mistake of thinking that since you know a
hammer...everything's a nail.

(I've seen way too many people try to turn Excel from a number cruncher
spreadsheet into a database.)

huh?

;-D

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