Open Source Software

 What is Open Source Software?

Open source software is a software that is legally available to end-user. Open source means open to all. Here user can view and can use source code without any cost. There are many open communities that are built to share open source software’s. Any user can use open source code. Open source code can be reuse many times. There are no limitation in using open source software and code.

Source code is the part of software that most programmers manipulates and source code tells an application should behave. With open source you can change, add and fix part of code that aren’t working. Open source software includes license that allows programmers to make changes in software to fit their requirements and control software.

History of Open Source Software: -

Open source software is built by Richard Stallman in 1983. Richard Stallman believes that software should be accessible to each and every one. Stallman began free code under his own license known as GNU public license. This new approach of creating tools leads to formation of open source initiative.

Does open source software really matters?

Open source software matters a lot. Because it unlocks possibility for many users to become innovators than closed source model. Open source communities are organized around open projects where anyone can contribute their thoughts. This groups maintain proprietary software.

Open source software development has resulted in some of the most important cloud platforms and applications that are used on large scale. One of most popular is LAMP. LAMP is an open source operating system and the world largest open source project. And there many other open source cross platform. Such as – Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Is open source software is built-in bug free?

Open source software is not bug free. Because it is open source. There are many developers, designers who works on their own environment. These developers don’t know that how others will use their code. That’s why open source is not bug free. Either it is open source or it is commercial, error in code exist. In commercial code vendors are responsible and in open source no one is responsible.

Advantages and dis-advantages of open source software: -

Advantage –

• Open source is free to use. Developers can examine code works freely and can make changes to their needs.

• Open source is stable, source code is publicly distributed. Many users depends upon long-term projects on open source communities.

• Open source has built-in community that constantly modifies and improves source code.

• Open source creates opportunities for new programmers.

Dis-advantages: -

• Open source is harder to use. Because not everything is well explained. You need to spend time in research and development.

• Open source poses many compatibility issues while attempting to program for making changes.

• Open source requires desirer hardware to train users and to imports data.

Conclusion: -

Open source software comes with own pros and cons. It completely depends on end-users whether to go for open source model or to go for close source model. For more technicality connect with HTS Hosting that works with closed and open source model. We provide best Windows hosting services like – corporate hosting, reseller streaming, GPS hosting and other hosting plans.

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