Information on the GNU Philosophy can be found on the GNU web site.
The GNU web site also has information on the GPL General Public License and Copyleft.
A listing of X11 Window Managers can be found here.
StarOffice Schedule is a calendar and to-do list manager from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
The StarOffice 5.1 productivity suite from SUN microsystems includes a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics software, calendar and to-do list, e-mail handler, database, internet reader and math software. This productivity suite is available as a free download or on a CD for a small charge. The source code will be available through the Sun Community Source Licensing program. This suite lacks integrated voice recognition software.
WordPerfect 8 for Linux is a word processor from Corel.
StarOffice Writer is a word processor from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
StarOffice Impress is a presentation tool from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
StarOffice Calc is a spreadsheet from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
StarOffice Base is a database access tool from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
GNU MySQL 3.20.32a (released under the GPL license) is a fast SQL server for large databases. It is both multiuser and multithreaded.
StarOffice Math is a formula derivation tool from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
An As-Yet-Unnamed OCR Project is listed in the LPD. The project is no longer active, however, the web site lists many links to OCR projects and information.
Information on obtaining the public domain source code for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) OCR program is here.
Xocr is a shareware X11 OCR program for Linux. English and German versions are available. A posting mentioned that it is not too reliable and has minimal documentation.
Note: Use of LZW based image types such as GIF, TIFF-LZW, and PDF-LZW on a web site may put one in violation of Unisys's patent on the LZW compression algorithm. Here is the information on GIF from the GNU web site. The GNU project has a pseudo-GIF format which does not use LZW.
GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a GPL image composition and authoring program.
StarOffice Draw and StarOffice Image are a pair of graphics tools from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
StarOffice Mail is an e-mail handler from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
StarOffice Discussion is an Internet news reader from SUN, free downloading for everyone.
BibleTime v0.1 is a bible study tool available for Linux.
Information on Educational Software for Education can be found here.