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For those of you that have ever had to buy Word, Excel, or Powerpoint, I don’t have to tell you how expensive Microsoft Office is. PC vendors are like drug dealers - they give you the Office trial for 60 days and once you're hooked, they own you! You can break the cycle of addiction and free your wallet and your data from expensive and restrictive licensing schemes!
What if I told you that there is a really good, and free alternative? What if it were available on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux?
 Download Openoffice.org right now - a free office suite that can replace Microsoft Office!
(works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris)
I use it in my business and install it on all my computers, and it doesn’t cost a thing. Not only is it free (as in price) it is also free (as in freedom). OpenOffice.org can open and save in Microsoft's popular formats including openXML (the 'x' now appended to .doc, .xls, and .ppt) What this means is no longer will you be locked into a funky file format and need to shell out more money every few years. OpenOffice.org supports the ISO certified OpenDocument format. Many schools, governments, individuals, and businesses are adopting OpenOffice.org so their data will be safe for years to come!
If you need to outfit one computer, or an entire fleet of computers with Office productivity software - no matter if you are a business, school, government entity, or individual, make the switch today!
I embrace open source and open standards as I feel the needs of the community and individual are served better. With open source, anyone is free to contribute to the development or make necessary changes.
I am proud to be part of a worldwide list of independent consultants that provide support services for OpenOffice.org; check out the Business Development Project!
Here is more of the best open source software around
Open Source
 7-Zip - Supports ZIP,RAR and many other compression formats. the 7z format is hard to beat! Makes for a great alternative to Winzip! (Windows)
 Ant Movie Catalog - program made to manage your collection of movies DVD, CD, and tapes. (Windows)
 Audacity - Cross-platform sound editor (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 Celestia - Space simulation that lets you explore our galaxy in three dimensions (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 Firefox - Award winning cross-platform open source web browser (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 Filezilla - fast and reliable FTP client and server (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 Pidgin (formerly Gaim) - instant messenger able to handle multiple protocols such as AIM, Bonjour, Jabber, IRC, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! (Windows, Linux)
 HTTrack Website Copier - make a backup of your website! (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 Inkscape - Inkscape is a Vector Graphics Editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 KeePass - open-source password keeper (Windows Mac, Linux, PocketPC, & PalmOS)
 NVU - HTML editor with similarities to Dreamweaver and Frontpage (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 PDFCreator - creates PDFs as easily as printing to a printer (Windows)
 Stellarium - Planetarium simulator for your computer that shows you a realistic 3D sky of any time and place on Earth! (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 Thunderbird - cross-platform email client with a great junk mail filter built in - can replace Outlook Express.(Windows, Mac, Linux)
 UltraVNC - allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control another PC on the network (Windows)
 VLC Media Player - a multimedia player for many audio and video formats - great alternative to Windows Media Player. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
 PortableApps - Put many of the above apps on your Thumb drive and it's like carrying a laptop on your keychain!
Portable applications have to be the coolest thing since sliced bread! You may already know about these "thumb drive" or "USB Stick" things that let you carry vast amounts of data everywhere you go... but imagine not only carrying your data, but your applications too - well, you can! This site has just about every program you could want put on a small USB drive that allows you to run the entire program whereever you go! (Windows)
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