Info System Theory and Practice

Info System Theory and Practice

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using open source software? Explain in detail.

First, again the higher product quality by experts as the pioneer of the open source movement is Eric Raymond ("The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and "The Magic Cauldron") called. Raymond calls it the "peer review" principle, which describes the process those programs, can be assessed by their code of other experts. This is reduced as compared to commercial software development fundamentally different principle, the probability that an error goes unnoticed.

The use of open standards are at a very strategic ...