Open
source software is most likely the result of the programming
community reacting to the greed of businesses and corporations.
Instead of paying, in some cases in ridiculous prices, for software
such as Microsoft Office consumers would be able to download Open
Office by Apache for free. VLC player is another open source software
for playing videos of many different kinds as opposed to paying for a
media player that can use those types of files.
This
leads to a battle of sorts against the Open source and Closed source
software companies. On one side, one can infer that the paid
businesses can buy up the most talented programmers to make their
software while the open source software developers have a larger mass
of programmers to check for bug and mistakes in the software.
Often
it is the case that open source software is an acceptable replacement
to paid software. However, it is not without its faults. Out of
personal experience there are still many places, such as schools and
offices, that still use paid software. Open Office did allow one to
save its file as a word document but ,there were some issues in
formatting in the sense that the word doc. file was altered. While
open source software may be a better option than paying it still has
a ways to go in the current world.
