Why do People Prefer Using Open Source Software?

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Why do People Prefer Using Open Source Software?
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Open Source Software
Open Source - Developer allow to user to read,
modified and shared the software. The Number
of big business and government organization use
Open source software. Open Source software
proves that price has not defined the quality of
software. The biggest benefit of open source is
that everybody can access the source code.
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Benefits of Open Source Software
Freedom Quality Flexibility Security Suppo
rt Options
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Freedom
With Free open source software (FOSS), users can
control the software and they changes the
software according to own requirements. Open
source makes a worldwide community of developers
and users where you can discuss all queries. The
users not only access open source software, but
may also control and modify it.
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Quality
In an open source community, there are countless
developers and users working to improve the
security, suggest many innovative features. User
also involve to the development of open source
software so developer do what they want. The
open source platform gives unbeatable and
innovative software.
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Flexibility
When the user uses the platform software like
Microsoft Windows and Office, these are required
to keep upgrading both software. Open source
software requires less resources, meaning that
you can run it on older hardware. Bugs in open
source software also tend to get fixed
immediately.
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Security
Open source software is more secured than other
closed source. Open source is a big community
like Red Hat Security response team and many
other larger projects (for example, Apache,
Mozilla) have their own security response teams
that's improves software security. The benefit
of using an open source Linux distribution is
that security features are very impressive with
Linux Firewall option.
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Support Options
In present time 80 of the internet platform is
based on open source software. Open source
softwares carry a large community, these
communities are free to share their suggestions
and tricks. Most of Linux distributions have an
online community and forums like Ubuntu,
openSUSE, ClearOS etc.
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Conclusion
Open source software offers a lot of advantages,
So these softwares are very necessary for
business. Here developers and user interconnect
with each other, so developers are working with
ease. More Read Here about Open Source
Software https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-so
urce_software