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OSalt Helps You Find Open Source Software Alternatives For Commercial Software

OSalt or Open Source as Alternative is an interesting website which lets you browse and also search for free and open source alternative for popular commercial and pricey softwares.

With OSalt, you can browse the software categories and also compare pros and cons of commercial as well as open source offerings.

By choosing an open source product, the user obtains a number of advantages compared to commercial products. Besides the fact that open source is always available for free, it is a transparent application, in that you are invited exclusively behind the scenes to view all source code and thereby to suggest improvements to the product. Furthermore, every product is covered by a large dedicated network, or community, who is more than willing to answer any questions, you may have.

Software categories listed under the website ( as i write this post) are business, communications, databases, development, education & science, graphic applications, internet & networking, multimedia & audio, security & privacy, system utilities and web development.

Upon selecting a particular category, the site lists down all the aailable open source applications. It also lists down top commercial softwares in that category with ratings. You can even check the detailed ratings and also read comments.

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While Open Source and free softwares definitely have their own limitation when it comes to certain categories ( eg. Security), but it does offer an effective to save some important money which would otherwise have been spent on commercial software.

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