clipped from: www.thesimpledollar.com   

What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.


1. Firefox

2. Thunderbird

3. Sunbird

4. Abiword

5. OpenOffice

6. ClamWin

7. Gaim

8. BitTorrent

9. GIMPShop

10. Gnucleus

22. PDFCreator

27. Workrave

28. GanttPV

29. GnuCash

30. True Combat: Elite