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Free Software for Windows (view source)
Revision as of 12:16, 19 October 2004
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There is a long list of free (as in speech) software programs that run on Windows. You can use this software for free, without ever having to change the underlying Operating System that you love/hate/need to do your work. Aside from the fact that free software for Windows makes it easier to evaluate the merits of free software in general (because you do not have to switch), it also reveals the intrinsic merits of free software: namely that features are built-in instead of priced in, quality is often higher, and there are low barriers to keeping the software up-to-date.
==Free Software You Should Try Now==
[http://www.mozilla.org Mozilla] (full suite of Internet software)
[http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice] (full suite of Office Productivity software)
[http://www.gimp.org Gimp] (robust graphics editing package)
==Firefox==
Firefox is the stand-alone web browser that is part of the mozilla.org project. The project has reached the 1.0 milestone, and is collecting contributions to take out a [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ full-page ad in the New York Times].
==Free Software You Should Try Now==
[http://www.mozilla.org Mozilla] (full suite of Internet software)
[http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice] (full suite of Office Productivity software)
[http://www.gimp.org Gimp] (robust graphics editing package)
==Firefox==
Firefox is the stand-alone web browser that is part of the mozilla.org project. The project has reached the 1.0 milestone, and is collecting contributions to take out a [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ full-page ad in the New York Times].
