alternative software

Covered in week 2 and 4 lectures, today, many alternative softwares that can be used instead of mainstream software like: MS office, adobe creative suite exists. Software can by catorgorised into 4 types: Productivity, Media, Home entertainment and Business. Each of the 4 types are currently dominated by large companies such as Microsoft and Autodesk. However because of the price range of such softwares, alternative softwares which are free of charge have been developed to counter the price range. Although free, theses alternative softwares are noticeably worse off in terms of useability and efficiency compared to that of paid softwares. Alternative Softwares are noticably downgraded when it comes to the amount of functions it can run, the amount of information it can process and it's efficiency at completing tasks. However these software are easier to learn due to their limited functionality, and takes significant less memory on a computer as they are smaller in size then that of paid softwares.