Open source or proprietary?
Posted on June 20, 2008 | Categorized under Software
Open source software development methodology is based on voluntary contribution from geeks around the globe. Followers of it strongly believe into evolutionary and collaborative progress. It appeals to giving-back nature of people and as participants work on projects they enjoy to work on, naturally gives better quality products. On the other hand, proprietary i.e. closed [...]
Free = open source?
Posted on March 21, 2008 | Categorized under Software
Some think and often use these two terms - Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) - interchangeably. That’s not completely right. Moreover, some relate both these terms with softwares available for free of any charge. And that’s completely wrong.
Both, OSS and FS, offer free softwares but the word “free” here [...]
