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I LOVE open source software because they often look nice and work well and on the top of it, they are free.
Open soft software is the software the source programming code of which is open and anyone can access it and even modify.
While usual commercial software are sold for some money and their source code is closed . Since the source code of the open source software is exposed to many people, the hidden programming errors (called bugs) are resolved quickly, since, unlike closed software, much more people can analyze the source code of open software and search for bugs.
Many people pay attention to this open source movement.
Open source software prevails even if sometimes users do not really realize that. But still, I think, it is used not as wide as it should be.
Sometimes people seem to want to pay money even if people do not need and can get nice software for free.
It is widely known that in Tokyo, it often happens at clothes shops. If clothes shops make discounts on their clothes, people are reluctant to buy because people think the clothes must not be good. People feel secure if people pay money.
On the other hand, in Osaka, which is second largest city in Japan, they love discounts!
I am from Tokyo but I overcame the feeling insecure of using open source software.
http://www.opensource.org
http://sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source



Fire Fox:it is a software like "WindowsInternetExplore"
http://www.firefox-2-0.com/

OpenOffice: it includes softwares which have functions of Microsoft Office.
Beside that it can even make PDF files, which is not possible with Microsoft Office.
It means that with Open Office you do not need to buy Adobe Acrobat for that.
http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/index.html

Azureus(BitTorrent): It is a BitTorrent software. If you do not know BitTorrent, please refer my article /comouter/BitTorrent
http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/