Technological advancements have made almost all businesses in every industry to be computer-oriented.
Nowadays, businesses understand the benefits of computerizing their operations to increase efficiency and streamline their operations. Theirs is the need to ensure that correct market forecast, production and distribution yields to expected rewards of a business in terms of profits and growth.
These operations ranging from market research to consumption of the products or services require different businesses to have different computerized systems which suit the activities and needs of the companies.
This means that software engineers and developers have to produce some tailored software and applications which provide solutions to the different businesses.
This can be overwhelming and in most instances, sub-standard and crappy applications will be developed. This leaves businesses with the options of relying on commercially produced software which may fail to capture the features and specifications which a business needs hence not providing adequate solution.
Moreover, users have no control of the programs hence they can’t make any tailored customizations to suit their varying needs.
Fortunately, there is a category of software open source which are produced and distributed freely and any user can make modifications to such software to suit a user’s needs. Therefore they have become more popular today because they provide users with several freedoms which ensure that a user can customize the software according to his/her needs.
Open source software and projects are usually free and a user can make modifications to a version of the software and even distribute the modified version to other people.
A user can use the software for any purpose without limitation and the biggest gain of these projects is the ability of different users and developers to contribute to the enhancements of the software by accessing the code of the projects and making improvements where necessary such as detecting anomalies and bugs and reporting them or coming up with features which could help enhance the software.
This makes open source software much powerful and popular in providing the needed solutions to different businesses today.
Previously this website was under the ownership of a person who was a strong proponent of Software Freedom. There were several post on the blog section of this website at that time which had great articles where the original owner criticized large corporations like Microsoft for commercializing each of the software or computer application that they produced instead of distributing them for free as is the case of computer applications such as Linux or Apache Webserver which had a good share of praise for being free.
Now this website has content about Software Freedom. There are some great articles already published, so make sure you click on the different categories and read the amazing posts.
