{"id":476,"date":"2007-03-01T23:09:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T04:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/open-source-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:49:59","slug":"open-source-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/open-source-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using open source doesn&#8217;t mean that you have to run Linux. Its just that Linux has sort of become the flagship of the Open Source Software (OSS) and whenever a person talks about OSS the general perception is that you need linux to enjoy\/use OSS. But thankfully this is not true. Even on my Windows system most of the applications I use are open source. e.g. OpenOffice for word processing, Firefox for browsing, GIMP for image manipulation etc. <\/p>\n<p>Now a major problem which newcomers have is that its difficult to figure out what Open Source alternatives are available for a given popular commercial software. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osalt.com\/acdsee\">Open Source Alternative<\/a> website attempts to solve this issue by giving a listing of the various OSS alternatives available for a given proprietary program.  <\/p>\n<p>Check it out, you might find some software that replaces the current program you use thus saving you a lot of money. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using open source doesn&#8217;t mean that you have to run Linux. Its just that Linux has sort of become the flagship of the Open Source Software (OSS) and whenever a person talks about OSS the general perception is that you need linux to enjoy\/use OSS. But thankfully this is not true. Even on my Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","category-interesting-sites","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}