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Show opensource some love this Valentine’s Day I love open source, love it. I’m one of those guys that hunts around for an open source alternative to every piece of software out there. I can’t stand paying ridiculous prices for software when a better alternative is available for free. Let me give some examples: During my study in my University I’m required sometime to edit images, nothing too crazy, just resizing and cropping mostly. Now my teacher could shovel out the money and buy me Photoshop, but to me that seems a waste. I’m not a designer and never will be so Photoshop is over kill for me. So for editing photos I use Paint.Net, a free open source alternative. Now grant it, it doesn’t replace Photoshop if you’re a high end graphics guy, but for people like me, it works great.
But you can use Gimp, Photoshop's alternative.
Also My one of hobby is build websites. So sometimes I need to compile program also. My programming language of choice is ColdFusion. Now if you do websites for a living you n doubt have heard of DreamWaver. Now granted DreamWaver isn’t that bad for WYSIWYGing a website, but for programming in ColdFusion, it’s a nightmare. Adobe obviously want you to use it, but I choose not to, instead I use CFEclipse. CFEclipse is a free opensource plugin for Eclipse that does everything I need it to do. Not only that, but I feel it’s more stable then DreamWaver and plus since it’s build on top of Eclipse, there are a ton of plugins for it. If you’re a programmer, you need to check out Eclipse. If you’re a ColdFusion programmer, drop DreamWaver and go with CFEclipse. Also 24 hours I am online. I always surfing online using Firefiox, not IE. Messenger? I use Pidgin.
OK, enough fluff and on to the purpose of this thread. Today is Valentine’s Day. To celebrate it, let’s show our support to all the Open Source project we love so much and make it a donation day. I’m sure they are a ton of people using the projects I mentioned above and other project to do their work and make a living. I’m also sure that at one time, you probably thought about making a donation and probably forgot to. Well nows the time do it. On Valentine’s Day, go to the project’s websites and make a donation to show your appreciation for all the contributors hard work ( it doesn’t have to be a lot, really anything is appreciated). Angel  |
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Last edited by apocalypticdreaming; February 15th, 2008 at 01:09 AM..
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