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<h1>Why is open source software better than closed source software</h1>
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<p>2021-10-25 04:15:27 EEST | <a href="..">back</a> | <a href="/">home</a> | <a href="/git">git</a></p>
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<h1>Pros</h1>
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<h2>Open source software is driven not by money, but by motivation</h2>
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<p>Open source developers want to genuinely help people instead of make loads of money
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by selling their data and products, that can be a factor, but it's also to help people understand
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the software and help you trust them.</p>
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<h2>Community help</h2>
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<p>With open source software you will get more in-depth help and more ?helpful help?.
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Basically you will get good community support instead of paying someone to help you.</p>
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<h2>Community recognition</h2>
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<p>By creating OSS you will get more recognised as a developer and your product might be more successful
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because of that, you will also reach more people trying to help you and find bugs and performance hogs
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so people who use your software will get a better experience.</p>
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<h2>Help building software</h2>
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<p>If you make open source software people might also want to help you, though don't expect free
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work just because it's open source :)</p>
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<h2>Advertising</h2>
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<p>If your project is popular on something like github you will probably get more users
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and so people trying to help you and search for bugs, etc.</p>
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<h2>Sense of value</h2>
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<p>Developers who develop OSS and when it becomes huge will feel more motivated to work and will
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mean more to them as people have either helped with code or they have complimented it or something similar.</p>
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<h2>Quality</h2>
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<p>Open source software usually cannot have messy code, well it can, but it gets quickly fixed,
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as everyone sees your code they will fix it and improve your code and when people don't see your code
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developers can be a bit more lazy and write inefficient and ugly code 'cause who's going to see it?
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Also bugs are less common in OSS as it has multiple developers looking at it a second trying to find bugs,
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well if they so choose to.</p>
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<h2>Security and privacy</h2>
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<p>As the project is open source the developer can't put any backdoors and data collection things unnoticed.
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Also if the application is storing anything for example login credentials chances are that
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the security is better as people are trying their best to harden it, though there are some bad people out there
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trying to introduce backdoors, though it's rare and as it's open source it gets patched pretty quickly
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one time it happened with PHP and it got reverted quick.</p>
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<h2>Customisation</h2>
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<p>If the closed source software you're using is lacking some feature or has a breaking feature, you cannot
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modify it, when with open source software you can.</p>
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<h2>More accessible</h2>
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<p>Your open source project will be more available to more devices and architectures because people
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can modify the source and if your designed your project well - it might just work with only compiling on the
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specific platform.</p>
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<h2>IT develops faster with it</h2>
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<p>For example if science kept everything secret we wouldn't know as much as we know, people who
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discovered antibiotics could have kept it secret until they died or they did and could have released
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it and made it available to the whole science so they could build, improve and help with/upon it.
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And the same applies with IT, IT develops faster when everything is easily modifiable and accessible.</p>
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<h1>Cons</h1>
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<h2>Miscommunication</h2>
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<p>People might try to improve your product, but they might break it, so if you don't make it clear
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in the rules of opening pull requests, they might get rejected.</p>
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<h2>Business</h2>
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<p>It's a bad idea to open source something if you're the first one to create it, but it's also good
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because you might teach people something and they will value your product more than the competitor's copy</p>
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