I’m a big fan of open source software. What I’m an even bigger fan of is finding websites that help consolidate open source application information, like osalt.com, and more recently, OpenDisc. With OpenDisc, they go beyond listing links of open source applications available for...

I was looking for an open-source program to burn some files to a CD, and remembered a site I bookmarked a while back called osalt.com, aka Open Source as ALTernative. Great site…it’s sort of a directory/database of sorts where you enter the name of a commercial program and it will...