what are advantages of using open source operating systems
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. It’s generally free – it has been estimated that open source software collectively saves businesses $60 billion a year. These days for virtually every paid for proprietary software system you will find an open source version.
2. It’s continually evolving in real time as developers add to it and modify it, which means it can be better quality and more secure and less prone to bugs than proprietary systems, because it has so many users poring over it and weeding out problems.
3. Using open source software also means you are not locked into using a particular vendor’s system that only work with their other systems.
4. You can modify and adapt open source software for your own business requirements, something that is not possible with proprietary systems.
2. It’s continually evolving in real time as developers add to it and modify it, which means it can be better quality and more secure and less prone to bugs than proprietary systems, because it has so many users poring over it and weeding out problems.
3. Using open source software also means you are not locked into using a particular vendor’s system that only work with their other systems.
4. You can modify and adapt open source software for your own business requirements, something that is not possible with proprietary systems.
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