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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.
+
+|------------------------------------------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Commercial Software | FOSS Equivalent | License | Used where |
+|------------------------------------------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| MATLAB | Scilab | CeCILL | Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Electronics, Embedded systems, Chemical), Science (Physics, Mathematics) |
+| Matlab | Octave | GPL | Numerical Computation |
+| AutoCad | KiCad, FreeCad | GPL | CAD system |
+| Mathematica / Maple | Sage | GPL | Precise arithmetic, algebra, symbolic computation |
+| Mathematica | Maxima | GPL | Mathematics, Engineering |
+| Turbo C | GCC | GPL | Engineering (Introductory Computing - all branches) |
+| Microsoft Office | Open office | LGPL | All branches |
+| Microsoft Office | LaTeX | LPPL | All branches |
+| MS OFFICE Plotting tools | Xmgrace, XFIG, GNUPLOT | BSD, GPL, Own license (but free) | Drawing the figures, plots, flow diagrams |
+| Cadence pSpice | ngspice | BSD | Engineering (Electrical, Electronics, Embedded systems) |
+| Pro/E | BRL-CAD | BSD | Engineering (CAD) |
+| MASM | NASM, FASM | BSD, BSD | Engineering (Electronics, Computer Science) |
+| Code composer Studio, IAR Workbench | GNU Binutils | GPL | Assembler, Compilers for micro controllers and DSP Processors (MSP, VC33 etc) |
+| VxWORKS | RTLinux, RTAI | GPL, GPL/LGPL (kernel and user space respectively), | Real-time operating System for Desktop and Embedded Systems |
+| KEIL 8051 | SDCC | GPL | GCC SDCC compiler for 8051 controlers |
+| synopsis-CosmosSE, Mentor-Icstudio, Cadence-Virtuoso | Xcircuit | GPL | schematic design |
+| Mentor-ICstation, Cadence-Virtuoso | Magic | BSD | Used for chip Layout design |
+| Modelsim | ghdl, freehdl | GPL | VHDL compiler |
+| S-Plus | R | GPL | Statistics |
+| Microsoft Windows | GNU/Linux | GPL | All branches |
+|------------------------------------------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+