We look at what open source software is and where you can find it. We show you how to break your reliance on Microsoft Office by replacing it with freeware.

1. Everything You Need For Your Office Is Free! An Introduction to Open Source Software

2. Goals To explain what Open Source Software (OSS) is and isn’t To show what kinds of software are available To show you where to find it, for FREE!

3. What is OSS? An operating system and/or applications software for which the source code is open for alteration by the public Gratis software made freely available to anyone under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Usually available for any OS (Linux, Windows, Mac)

4. What is available in OSS? Computer Operating Systems (OS) Office productivity applications (word processor, spreadsheet, etc.) Image editing applications In short, everything you need to set up and run your office for FREE!

5. Office Productivity Google Docs

6. Office Productivity

7. Office Productivity Google Docs Word Processing, PDF Creation, Spreadsheets, Presentation, Forms Can collaborate with other Google Docs users on Documents File Sharing Comes with any GMail account And it’s FREE!

8. Office Productivity

9. Office Productivity Open Office Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawing, Database Fully MS Office Compatible Used by Governments, Schools, IT, Non-Profits, F/OSS Advocates Stable, available for all OS’s And it’s FREE!

10. Image Editing

11. Image Editing The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) Edit Photos Crop Images Draw Available on all OS’s And it’s FREE!

12. Image Editing

13. Image Editing Paint.net Edit Photos Crop Images Draw Available on PC Only And it’s FREE!

14. Audio Editing

15. Audio Editing Audacity Edit Sounds Record Audio Create MP3’s Available for all OS’s And it’s FREE!

16. Video Editing

17. Video Editing Cam Studio Edit Video Record Audio Export video for the web Available for PC Only And it’s FREE!

18. True or False: You can run an office from a USB Flash Drive?

19. True

20. Portable Applications PortableApps.com http://portableapps.com/ Offers a variety of software in .paf format including OpenOffice and Mozilla Firefox

21. Portable Applications The Portable Freeware Collection http://www.portablefreeware.com/ FoxIT Reader (A PDF Reader for Firefox) Notepad ++ CCleaner

22. Portable Applications 100 Portable Apps for PC and Mac http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/ Portable Games Portable Media Tools (Audio / Video) Portable Security Software

23. Telephony Skype http://www.skype.com/ Offers Skype To Skype Calls Business Plan Available Supports Video Chat Available in Portable format

24. Telephony Google Talk http://www.google.com/talk/ Can talk with other Google Talk users all over the world Can transfer files Supports Video Chat if both parties have web cams installed

25. PDF Creation Primo PDF Creator http://www.primopdf.com/ PC Only Cute PDF Writer PC Only http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

26. PDF Creation PDF Creation is Native in OS-X for Mac In the lower-left of every Print dialog is a "PDF" button, you can save to a PDF and then convert to any format you want using Preview (the default OS X PDF/image viewer)

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30. Resources Terminology GNU Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix; it was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code OSS Open Source Software

31. Resources Terminology GPL or GNU GPL The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

32. Resources Terminology Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other.