Here some nice websites that i found very useful when i wanted to find open source software...

Open Source as Alternative is a directory the suggests open source alternative software of well known commercial one.

If you are a Linux user, than you should try the The Linux Alternative Project.

And the really good community based directory Ohloh.

When you need a new software... is suggest giving a try on these websites. Cheers.

I have to admit that i am a great supporter of the open source and free software idea! That explains why i mostly use for my daily activities open source or free software.

Anyway... This post is not to introduce myself, but to express my anger about some commercial companies that violate the licenses (like GPL) of the open source software. They use parts of the code or the whole libraries in their commercial software, without at least crediting the original authors! That's is even more ridiculous when the they public this violation... like the one i came across...

So, here it is... this is the Hall of Shame of FFmpeg.

FFmpeg is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of free software / open source libraries. It includes libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, and libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library. The name of the project comes from the MPEG video standards group, together with "FF" for "fast forward".

100 little bugs in the code,
100 bugs in the code,
fix one bug, compile it again,
101 little bugs in the code.

101 little bugs in the code.....
(Repeat until BUGS = 0)