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This 3 page paper discusses open source software and why many companies are switching from proprietary software to open source. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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them. Now, however, many companies are beginning to switch to using both open source programs in addition to the proprietary programs, or have gone to an all open source format.
Why? First of all, open source software was built upon the unique social experiment that basically stated that the program would be free for everyone to use and everyone to
improve upon. No one seriously thought it would evolve, let alone survive the first generations of the product. What one can assume from its growing success and popularity is that
as a social experiment it not only succeeded but exceeded expectations. Open source software, in a nutshell, is free to the public and allows the user access to the source
code(without restrictions)(Flynn 2001). The only stipulations are that the user must agree to a licensing statement which basically says something to the effect that the user agrees to abide by
the rules of free software, has the right to distribute it and to change or add to the source codes. This is the only catch with open source software; when
a change is made to the original you have to submit it to the community so that others have the same opportunity to benefit from the enhancements and to offer
their own expertise(Flynn 2001). This serves to not only support the air of collaboration, but also has the effect of continuing to develop the product. One of the chief
reasons that organizations are switching to total open source programs is that with this collaborative element, there is not as much need to run a full time IT group dedicated
to updates and research. The community does that for the group. So, one can see how problems with the software would be detected by a whole community of programmers looking
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