software-old.org
author Anoop Jacob Thomas<anoop@fossee.in>
Tue, 17 May 2011 00:16:37 +0530
changeset 9 b735be04795c
parent 0 6d5b5cf4ebe6
permissions -rw-r--r--
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.

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