What are the advantages and disadvantages of Open Source software?

[JamesWatson]

Advantages are:

1.Mostly software free or less cost.
2.right to use the software in any way.
3.no single entity on which the future of the software depends.
4.No per-copy fees can be asked for modified versions.
5.availability of the source code and the right to modify it.

Disadvantages are:

1.Mostly used commercial applications.
2.security bugs
3.Support issues

I think this information will help you.


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