Added info on office replacement office.org.
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 | FOSS Equivalent | License | Used where |
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| 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 |
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