Business of Free and Open Software (FOSS)
Introducing Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) These are software that gives you the liberty to use, copy, study, modify, and distribute it in any way and any form. Importantly the source code is made available for anyone to view and modify to and make it better, in contrast to proprietary software, where the underlying source code is usually hidden from the users. Benefits of FOSS The benefits of using FOSS can include decreasing software costs, increasing security and stability (especially in regard to malware), protecting privacy, and giving users more control over their own hardware. Free, open-source operating systems such as Linux and descendants of BSD are widely utilized today, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones (e.g. Android), and other devices. Free software licenses and open-source licenses are used by many software packages. ( Wikipedia ) Business of FOSS Its unbelievable that the underlying concept of FOSS is a business Model, you mig...