The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!

Hey, just because you are a happy Windows user does not mean that Open Source is not for you. Take the OSSwin project for instance. I feel that this is a great example of just how many OSS apps there truly are for the ‘other’ OS.

As we all know, there’s a lot of commercial, closed source software out there. Many people (including me) don’t agree with the fact that the source remains closed and believe that releasing the source code helps improving the software in many ways. There *do* exist Open Source alternatives for most of the non-free, closed source stuff out there. One of them is the GNU/Linux Operating System.

Unfortunately, as a computerscientist/geek I’ve noticed that a lot people are afraid to install a Free Operating System like Linux. That’s why I started looking for Open Source Software (OSS) under Windows.

Within this document, you should be able to find software which is able to replace much of the proprietary software most Windows-users use nowadays. Feel free to download, install, copy and use them: it’s completely legal to do so! [Read the rest]