Open source software has really come of age. Most of the web servers on the planet rely on at least one open source application and many servers are entirely powered by open source. Desktop open source applications have arrived as well. Many neophyte webbies have no idea that Firefox is open source and may not really care.

Whether you care about how an application you use was created, you may care about how much you pay for it. How does the word free sound? To good to be true. Nonesense! The next time you need something to write your resume with or crop the beautiful new photo of your child, check out AlternativesTo http://alternativeto.net. Just click on the application you would have had to pay for and you will see a huge list of open source alternatives. These aren’t slapped together, half-hearted apps. These are fully featured, stable applications you’ve just never heard of. Try one. What have you got to lose?