Recently, I was reading a journal article written by Jay Pfaffman for my graduate class in Instructional Design.  In this article, Pfaffman (2008) asserted that Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) applications can meet many of the needs of a high school science classroom (p. 25).

Pfaffman (2008) stated that the FOSS movement began with Richard Stallman writing the GNU Manifesto.  The purpose of FOSS is to provide software that is based on the principle of freedom, not just cost.  This freedom comes from being given access to the software's source code, the files used to create it.  Doing …

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