I was just reading through an
interesting post from Mike Kavis, in which he describes his efforts to use open source software as a way to avoid Microsoft's products altogether. His post is a follow-up to
another one he wrote about his, er, social experiment. Kavis became Microsoft-free by using products such as
Thunderbird for e-mail,
OpenOffice for productivity apps, and
Firefox for browsing. After chucking Microsoft Office, though, Kavis laments that there is no answer for Visio. I beg to differ. There is actually a truly fantastic free, open source alternative to Microsoft's visualization and diagramming tool:
Dia. Take a look at it here.
