1. OpenGoo is the open source Web office that lets you collaborate with your fellow jobless and organize that people’s revolution we have all been waiting for. Compare it to the student version of Microsoft Office.
2. Scribus is the open source desktop publishing program for Linux that will help you get out those flyers telling other homeless people where the demonstration is. Compare it to Adobe Illustrator.
3. TextPattern is a flexible content management system that also helps you publish standards-compliant Web pages that print nicely. The revolution deserves a good Web site.
4. GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation System, is great for resizing or extracting bits from pictures like the one above. I use it all the time. You can use it to virtually link the President to the workers’ enemy of the moment. Compare it to Adobe Photoshop.
5. Kino is a cool video editor for Linux. You can use it for that revolutionary film you have been planning, “Triumph of the Geeky.” You can compare it to Final Cut Pro.
6. Pidgin is the universal chat client that gets you over all those proprietary walls erected by “the man” so you can communicate between cells. It even supports custom smileys, so if you want to add a Che Guevara beard to yours go right ahead.
7. Mozilla Thunderbird is the e-mail client I use here at ZDNet Open Source. It’s a good replacement for Microsoft Outlook Express, plus you can add-in features like a calendar so you won’t be late for the revolution.
8. KPresenter is the presentation piece of the KOffice suite. This will let you demo your revolution so it won’t be confused with those of splitters like the Judean Peoples’ Front or People’s Front of Judea. That would be very embarrassing.
9. Amarok is an open source music player, an iTunes replacement, which will be one of the 15 projects honored with a booth at CeBIT next month. If you can’t dance to the revolution what is the point?
I think that this information is about security and high speed things???I like how we have such convience at out fingure tips like pictures, chatting, shopping, your schedual and also allows the safety of doing these things without fear of someone hacking in and stealing your information
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ReplyDeleteOpen source software has been a major way to save money especially during this bad economic times. One can download almost any kind of software free in the web. Although this has kicked the market of some known softwares,it is during that time when such things should not matter.If i can use open office for my spread sheet application which serves the same purpose, then am okay.The bottom line is free.Although a major problem is not being able to contact someone incase you have a problem with the software, most people donot worry about this. As technology grows, then more free sofware will be developed and will have better capabilities and functions.-Annah
ReplyDeleteI think that in this economic climate we're going to see an increase in the use of open source software but also a shift in the mentality of its contributors.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this article and quote:
"One of the very few positive consequences of the current financial miasma will be a sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor. Mass unemployment and a deep economic recession comprise the most effective antidote to the utopian ideals of open-source radicals."
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=556&doc_id=166342
With so many people being unemployed, at some point open source contributors are going to start to demand some kind of compensation. The sites may begin offering competitive wages in an attempt to attract the experts in their fields, which could potentially create a hot new job market that could decrease unemployment numbers.
I agree with Ashley. However, if this does create a new job market: would open source still be open source? would companies need to start charging for their product in order to pay the wages of the employees? would the fact that its not free anymore make it less desirable?
ReplyDeleteI guess my real question is if it wasn't free would people still be interested?
if the answer to that question is yes, than there is definitely a job marked blooming there in an extremely profitable field. However, if the answer is no then beginning to pull money out of something that was previously free would simply shut the operation down completely!