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What are the advantages of open source over proprietary products? |
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Written by Garfield Lucas
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- Development tools are much cheaper – often free.
- More openly documented – open source developers tend to be more honest about their products' shortcomings.
- Standards-based – offering high level of compatibility with existing systems.
- More secure – certain popular proprietary products are notorious for their security flaws.
- More flexible – all the projects hosted here on DEOSS will run on any operating system, not just Microsoft Windows.
- Faster development – end-user products can be developed much more quickly.
- More appropriate – products can be built and configured exactly as people need them.
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Last Updated on Monday, 04 September 2006 15:47 |
