Thought of the Day: Piracy is a Crime - Get a Life People. Use these free things

Before going into details of this post, I would like to create a background. You can see this anti-piracy post here, and read the comments from the people. Isn't it strange that everyone (except myself) who has made a comment on the post supports piracy? Does everyone who comes on this blog supports piracy so strongly? No. They do not feel so strongly, but are simply addicted to piracy. Piracy is like dope. The more you have, the more you are implored to have. And just like dope, there is a solution to get out of it's clutches. The people themselves have now found a solution to this. The answer is- Open Source, Free Softwares.

Many user-made, free, open source softwares have come up on the internet to solve the problem. As is evident, an Operating System, and a Word Processor package is nearly all that is required for the office work. Currently the market is captured by Windows (for Operating System) and Microsoft Office (for Word Processor). But both the applications have user made variants too. Open Suse (the free Linux based OS), and OpenOffice (the free word processor) do the work. Why resort to piracy when these free softwares can do the work? I am to describe about each of the two applications in this post.


OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases etc., from Sun Microsystems. It supports many languages and computers. It even reads data from other office softwares. The special thing is, it is completely open source meaning that anyone edit the features, request new features, or enhance the suite. This gives you a chance to get your own requirements added to the suite, getting your wish catered to, as well as improving the already fine software. It has no licence, can be downloaded on any number of computers, gives ever increasing number of updates, and is available in your native language too, making it much easy to use. It is the choice of the day. Open Office can be downloaded here.



OpenSuse.org- A free Linux-based Operating System for the computers

Many developers round the world who believe that softwares shall not be paid for, have made a project of creating the world's most usable Linux. It is deemed to become a commom platform for Linux hackers and application developers. It comprises of all the things needed in an Operating System. Above all, it's free, and now-a-days, there is a big rush for Open Suse, which has ample chances of challenging Windows. Like OpenOffice.org, it consists of defect reporting, that will improve the Operating System. It is created by the people themselves. Anyone can register and add their codes to the Open Suse project. So, when the people themselves do the job, they will be content with it, and have their share in the promotion of the thing. Thus, it will become one of the most user-friendly Operating System, consisting of all the features that the users want. It will be (and is already becoming) a direct challenge to Windows. OpenSuse can be downloaded here.


Thus, when these, and many, many other softwares are present, one can do without resorting to piracy. If one need not resort to piracy, the world be cleaner, and no ThePirateBay verdict will be passed. Many other common applications used by people have substitutes, which some or in the other way, are better or atleast upto the mark of the existing giants.