After browsing the web and looking at all the the free alternatives to expensive software packages like Microsoft Office and the Adobe Creative Suite, it makes me wonder why we don’t see a lot more integration of free software packages in both public and private education. From my perspective, free software is the future, with the business model revolving around support and services for the software. We’ll see how this plays out.Just to get a sense of the options, Jimmy Atkinson notes 50 pieces of software that have free alternatives. (That blog post did not have a trackback option)
To practice the trackback feature, I am going to link to Linux’s Open Source Blog, with an entry containing some quotes about the difference between Free and Open Source.
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Testing, testing!