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Open Source Software Opposed To Commercial Software

Introduction

As the modern world has become more facilitative, is has managed to become equally vulnerable. Those times seem to be light years ago, when everything will be done and managed in a hand written form; when the notion of the digital world, and the communication or management of operations on a virtual platform was deemed as a marvel and nothing less.

The primary drivers of any program or function on the computer network are the software working behind it. If it were not for the software, half of the advancements or facilitations with respect to the working or the functions of network programs are performed via these well developed software.

This paper undertakes the endeavour to take the debate of open source software in comparison to the close source software, based on the accessibility, benefits, and potential risks, to newer and higher level, and provide the reader with an in depth insight regarding the subject under discussion.

Thesis Statement

Open source software renders more benefits and better functionality, along with enhanced security, as compared to the commercial software.

Open Source Software

Primarily, the term Open source software refers to the usage and the accessibility to the software by numerous parties. It is certain software of computer that is found and is obtainable in the source code form. The primary rights of the software are mainly reserved or appropriated only for the copy right holders of that software. However, under the circumstances of the open source software, the particular property (software) is rendered on the basis of the open source software; that formally authorizes and acknowledges the consent of allowance of the distribution, study, alteration and even modifications in the program (software), by other party (Schryen, p. 130).

Commercial Software

Even Commercial software primarily refers to the extent of accessibility of the user to the program, but the connotation that it endures is rather different from what open source software does. As the name denotes, the primary sphere of this software is commercial oriented, and the main target is the general population, possessing the need for that software. The commercial software enables the user to access all the functions and programs that are entailed by that software, provided the desired substantial amount is paid for it by the user or the ultimate buyer.

Trend or Practice (Open Or Commercial Software)

The trend does not refer to the ...