Modified information on replacements for autocad and matlab and modified software page.
#+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.
|------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+----------------|
| Commercial Software | Recommended FOSS Equivalent | Other Packages |
|------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+----------------|
| MATLAB | [[file:matlab.org::sec-1][Scilab]] | [[file:matlab.org::sec-3][Octave]] |
| | [[file:matlab.org::sec-2][SciPy]] | |
| Mathematica | [[file:mathematica.org::sec-1][Sage]] | [[file:mathematica.org::sec-2][Maxima]] |
| Maple | [[file:mathematica.org::sec-1][Sage]] | [[file:mathematica.org::sec-2][Maxima]] |
| Turbo C | [[file:turboc.org::sec-1][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 | |
| AutoCad | /no recommendations/ | [[file:autocad.org::sec-1][KiCAD]] |
| | | [[file:autocad.org::sec-2][Freecad]] |
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