Open Source is considered as a type of software which is for free distribution, free improvement and use of any person wishing to comply with software license. While, commercial software is developed by programmers to sell for a revenue and patent or a copyright are applied in order to prevent other company's programmers from stealing their software.
There are few reasons why Open Source Software is better than Commercial Software:
(a) Open Source Software has a continuous features and releases.
New features and enhancements of software are released in order to sustain the needs and demands of users and then contributed back to the community.
(b) The costs, security and flexibility differentiate Open Source Software and Commercial Software. For the cost, it is free of charge for users to use open source software while open source's security is more secure than commercial software is due to source code is available for public scrutiny which is vulnerable for developers to find and fix the code.
(c) Open Source software has a smaller risk compared to Closed Source Software. It is not affected even if the company falls or bankrupts as the source is still available to allow users to continue to use the products. While closed source software is tied to the company who creates the software. Once if the company falls or bankrupts, the software will be fallen as well. as they are leaning greatly on company's viability.
Information Link:
http://www.commonplaces.com/services/why-open-source
http://solutionsfit.com/blog/2010/04/06/7-reasons-to-use-open-source-software/
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