Open source free software resources

[Posted in response to a blog about cheap and free tools for multimedia- here are the free in terms of freedom ones.]

Open source free software resources:

http://gimp.org/ - powerful photo and image editing

General lists:

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

(And naturally most of the above programs will run on GNU-Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.)

Video, audio, and image isn't my field (I'm the non-multimedia part of the Agaric multimedia collective), but I wanted to make sure the resources that extend freedom - not just stretch budgets - are on the radar.

Robin Miller suggests FOSS video isn't there yet (and nothing cheap is), although a presenter mentioned specifically Audacity which is open source free software.

My argument is always that if we can overcome some of the coordination costs of a large number of people and organizations funding the software development we need, free software will prove both better quality-wise and more cost effective, in addition to empowering people worldwide.

From Richard Stallman, to society, and to us individually, on why free software:

You deserve to be able to cooperate openly and freely with other people who use software. You deserve to be able to learn how the software works, and to teach your students with it. You deserve to be able to hire your favorite programmer to fix it when it breaks.

You deserve free software.

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