Sunday, 4 April 2010

OpenSource

Why pay for Microsoft Office, Photoshop or alike when you can get alternatives for free, with OpenSource software! Open source means the source code (programming behind software) is open and free to use. If you are a programmer you can edit the software but best of all, anyone can use it.

Firefox is a very famous example, if you've been using computers for any length of time you've probably heard of it. When you turn your computer on, to access the internet you most likely click on Internet Explorer on a PC or Safari on a Mac. This is all fine, but did you know you can get alternatives. Firefox, Chrome, Sea Monkey, Opera, Flash Peak, Avant, Flock and many more!

If these names sound familiar, that's because in Europe, Microsoft recently rolled out its browser choice with lots of options. This was following a company suing Microsoft for mis-leading customers into thinking Internet Explorer was the only browser.