Ive seen heaps of free software sites on the internet. Whats the point of this one?
I figure you bought this book because you want to know where you can get your hands on software that’s going to be able to do what you want it to do without it costing you a cent. Am I right? Good, thought so. Then let’s get to it! I have tried to make this selection the best and free-est (meaning with the least restriction, obligation and exposure to advertising) while meeting my single criteria and I have also endeavoured to give an alternative unless one program is way ahead of the competition and there really is no contest (in my humble opinion, of course). Naturally my selection is subject to my own personal biases and is by no means exhaustive. There are thousands of programs out there and there are more being written every day. What I present to you here are the best ones I have found and/or used in ten years of searching out free software to use. Whatever computing task you need to perform, chances are that there is a free software program out there that will do it for you. The
