http://techdebug.com/blog/2007/11/21/open-source-software-promotion/ Why talk when you can fly Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:27:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://techdebug.com/blog/2007/11/21/open-source-software-promotion/comment-page-1/#comment-443 lantrix Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:01:59 +0000 http://techdebug.com/blog/2007/11/21/open-source-software-promotion/#comment-443 I'm working in one of the worlds 10 largest IT companies, and we are on a Project in a big Telco, so its a windows shop. Proprietary city. Firefox is as far as they allow "free" apps - so I use my mac with all my customised apps along side my windows laptop. It gets some stares, but I've had converts (to the mac as well!). I’m working in one of the worlds 10 largest IT companies, and we are on a Project in a big Telco, so its a windows shop. Proprietary city.
Firefox is as far as they allow “free” apps – so I use my mac with all my customised apps along side my windows laptop. It gets some stares, but I’ve had converts (to the mac as well!).

]]> http://techdebug.com/blog/2007/11/21/open-source-software-promotion/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Liam Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:07:45 +0000 http://techdebug.com/blog/2007/11/21/open-source-software-promotion/#comment-428 As a person who uses half the items listed on the CNet article (Firefox, Pidgen, Infra, Gimp, Audacity, Open Office, VLC) and some others they don't mention but are quite good (Miro, Linux (Fedora Core, Ubuntu, and Slackware), Thunderbird) I'd have to say open source is the way to go! I've started saving the small company I IT manage for a LOT of money by switching over to open source software instead of ridiculously overpriced mainstream apps. Sure, there's some issues, like having to manually install MP3 and WMV support in Linux (although, that's gotten a LOT easier the last year or so!) and Gimp isn't as powerful as Photoshop. But it's close enough for me. Viva la Open Source! As a person who uses half the items listed on the CNet article (Firefox, Pidgen, Infra, Gimp, Audacity, Open Office, VLC) and some others they don’t mention but are quite good (Miro, Linux (Fedora Core, Ubuntu, and Slackware), Thunderbird) I’d have to say open source is the way to go!
I’ve started saving the small company I IT manage for a LOT of money by switching over to open source software instead of ridiculously overpriced mainstream apps.
Sure, there’s some issues, like having to manually install MP3 and WMV support in Linux (although, that’s gotten a LOT easier the last year or so!) and Gimp isn’t as powerful as Photoshop. But it’s close enough for me.
Viva la Open Source!

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