#+TITLE:     Free & Open Source Software Replacements

#+AUTHOR:    Anoop Jacob Thomas

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#+DATE:      2011-05-10 Tue

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Below given are a list of software which we have identified as a

replacement for the proprietary software packages listed in column 1.

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| Commercial Software                                  | Recommended FOSS Equivalent | Other Packages |

|------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+----------------|

| MATLAB                                               | [[file:matlab.org::sec-1][Scilab]]                      | [[file:matlab.org::sec-2][Octave]]         |

| AutoCad                                              |                             | KiCad          |

|                                                      |                             | Freecad        |

| Mathematica                                          | Sage                        | Maxima         |

| Maple                                                | Sage                        | Maxima         |

| Turbo C                                              | GCC                         |                |

| Microsoft Office                                     | Open Office                 | LaTeX          |

|                                                      |                             | Libre Office   |

| Microsoft Windows                                    | GNU/Linux                   |                |

| MS OFFICE Plotting tools                             | Xmgrace, XFIG, GNUPLOT      |                |

| Cadence pSpice                                       | ngspice                     |                |

| Pro/E                                                | BRL-CAD                     |                |

| MASM                                                 | NASM, FASM                  |                |

| Code composer Studio, IAR Workbench                  | GNU Binutils                |                |

| VxWORKS                                              | RTLinux, RTAI               |                |

| KEIL 8051                                            | SDCC                        |                |

| synopsis-CosmosSE, Mentor-Icstudio, Cadence-Virtuoso | Xcircuit                    |                |

| Mentor-ICstation, Cadence-Virtuoso                   | Magic                       |                |

| Modelsim                                             | ghdl, freehdl               |                |

| S-Plus                                               | R                           |                |

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