While opensource has provided other developing nations Such as india, Brazil and China unparalleled flexibility and regaining if control of their IT futures. The question still remains to be answered where is the legislation to bring sweeping infrastructure changes to a country that already is strapped for capital?
We need government to give opensource a chance in rebuilding technology infrastructure.
South Africa with Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu have made phenomenal strides in this respect http://www.ubuntu.org. This version of Linux really kicks tail, Redhat et al.
The following list delves into replacement options and new software that you may have never heard of that is free. On the left is the package that is proprietary and costs a lot of money in licencing and on the right is the FREE alternative.
MS Office Word, Excel and powerpoint - Open office at http://www.openoffice.org
Web Browser - Firefox http://www.mozilla.org
Mail - Thunderbird or Evolution http://www.mozilla.org
databases - mysql (http://www.mysql.org) or postgresql (http://www.postgresql.org)
Web Servers - Apache (http://www.apache.org)
Graphical editor - photoshop equivalent - The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org)
Blender is a cool animation package that has been used in movies like of Spiderman for some of the graphics
check it out at http://www.blender.org - Get some artists to start producing some Zimbabwean animation for crying out loud!
Open Movie project (http://orange.blender.org/cms/Home.553.0.html)
Check some of these out before you dismiss this opensource, this ain't your grand daddy's opensource. This stuff works!
ENJOY!
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