Proprietary Software Or Open Source ?
I use a lot of open source software in my daily life. Android, Linux, infact, I am currently typing on a Ubuntu machine. I’m also a user of closed source (proprietary) software such as Windows 10 and am a big fan of certain pieces of software and OS’s so I thought it would be a good idea to look at the merits of open and closed source software. So what is Open Source? In Software terms, open source refers to a software which has it’s source code freely available on the Internet to download. In comparison, the source code for proprietary commercial software is usually a closely guarded secret of the company. Open source software is distributed under different types of licenses such as LGPL, GNU, BSD, Apache, etc. In nearly all these cases the software can be used without paying a fee. It should be noted that sometimes large organizations distribute the source code, such as Apache, Open Office, Mozilla, etc. Something else to consider is that y...