Good FOSS Win32 apps (was: Writing FOSS for Win32...)

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM, David J Berube
<djberube at berubeconsulting.com> wrote:
>>   FileZilla is a great FTP/SFTP client.
>
>  Works great on Linux as well.

  As do 7-Zip, GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and WireShark.

  One benefit of FOSS -- which I suspect is often
under-sold/appreciated -- is that cross-platform applications become a
lot more viable.  If there's already working general code, there are a
lot of people out there who can tackle something like porting.  This
is in contrast to a closed payware app, where porting costs are often
hard to handle, and deployment/support costs a serious concern.  So
for any shop which wants to support a cross-platform internal user
community, FOSS has yet another advantage.

-- Ben