Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Advantage of Open Source Software

The advantage of open source software is a lot this are as follows:

First:

Open- source software is considerably less expensive than proprietary alternatives. For example, Linux can be installed for free while Microsoft’s Windows operating system can cost thousands of dollars a month to license.


Second:

Access to under dying Source code means users can detect and fix programming bugs, also OSS can be tailored to a user’s specific needs and upgrades happen at a pace chosen by the user, not the vendor.

Third :

The transparency of OSS improves security because security flaws can be detected and corrected.


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