http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/3-great-open-source-apps/ Craig Watson graduated from Aberystwyth University in July 2010 with a Second Class Honours, Division 1 (2:1) degree in Computer Science, and am currently working as London Systems Administrator for industry-leading IT software company Autonomy. Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/3-great-open-source-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Craig Watson's Personal Homepage » Free, Open Source Software: Why You Should Care Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:18:02 +0000 http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/three-great-open-source-apps-2/#comment-1170 [...] So why should you – the user – care if the programs you use are FOSS or commercial? The truth is that many users don’t care, however there are an rapidly increasing number of FOSS applications that can complete and even out-perform their proprietary rivals on performance, so the open source equivalent is very often better at the task. For some examples of great FOSS applications, check out my previous blog. [...] [...] So why should you – the user – care if the programs you use are FOSS or commercial? The truth is that many users don’t care, however there are an rapidly increasing number of FOSS applications that can complete and even out-perform their proprietary rivals on performance, so the open source equivalent is very often better at the task. For some examples of great FOSS applications, check out my previous blog. [...]

]]> http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/3-great-open-source-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-1157 Craig Watson – Web Developer – Personal Homepage » Windows Users: Switch to Firefox Today! Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:36:47 +0000 http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/three-great-open-source-apps-2/#comment-1157 [...] personal browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox. Details about why I use Firefox are on my previous blog about great open source apps. I highly recommend that you use this opportunity to install it and give it a go – with the [...] [...] personal browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox. Details about why I use Firefox are on my previous blog about great open source apps. I highly recommend that you use this opportunity to install it and give it a go – with the [...]

]]> http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/3-great-open-source-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-1156 Craig Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:14:03 +0000 http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/three-great-open-source-apps-2/#comment-1156 Thanks for the link Brad, I aim to write a blog on the FOSS side of things at some point, though probably not as in-depth as your article! Thanks for the link Brad, I aim to write a blog on the FOSS side of things at some point, though probably not as in-depth as your article!

]]> http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/3-great-open-source-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 Phil Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:11:42 +0000 http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/three-great-open-source-apps-2/#comment-1155 if songbird had the ability to sync with a iPod touch it would be the greatest open source program around if songbird had the ability to sync with a iPod touch it would be the greatest open source program around

]]> http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/3-great-open-source-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Brad from BitBot Software Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:01:05 +0000 http://www.cwatson.org/2010/03/01/three-great-open-source-apps-2/#comment-1154 Readers who want to understand a little more about Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) should checkout my article http://www.bitbot.com.au/2010/02/software-freedom/ Readers who want to understand a little more about Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) should checkout my article http://www.bitbot.com.au/2010/02/software-freedom/

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